The application process for Google’s Summer of Code 2008 season is not even open yet, but people interested in participating with FFmpeg are already busy on their qualification tasks.

Ramiro Polla submitted a system that can demux captured MSN video streams and play them back using a video codec known as Mimic. Here is the system in action:

Sascha Sommer has completed a playback system for the RL2 file format, which figured heavily into a CD-ROM game called Voyeur:

There are still some qualification tasks left unclaimed on the FFmpeg GSoC page. And if we run out, we can make more, so don’t despair.