{"id":256,"date":"2006-04-26T07:11:59","date_gmt":"2006-04-26T14:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/?p=256"},"modified":"2006-04-26T07:14:29","modified_gmt":"2006-04-26T14:14:29","slug":"serious-about-vc-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/serious-about-vc-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Serious About VC-1"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a plan, I really do. I am still working hard on Understanding VC-1<\/a>. Just so that you, the reader and open source multimedia enthusiast understand correctly, this is not so that we can build a new implementation that mirrors the reference implementation 1:1. What I am doing right now is more or less the “phase 1” of this particular documentation effort. Phase 2 is developing a more top-down specification in a similar spirit as my old VP3 format<\/a> document. Phase 3 is to generate a development roadmap with specific tasks and milestones as well as a number of sample vectors for individual modules which should facilitate initial component validation as well as ease development of SIMD-optimized components.<\/p>\n

So you see, phase 1 is where I essentially use the MultimediaWiki as a scratchpad. VC-1 is, like, really big and hard to get one’s head around. This process is helping me.<\/p>\n


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Part of my plan in all of this is that I am hoping to pawn off the actual writing of code on other people. I know there are people out there — even people reading this blog — who are interested in making some material contribution to open source multimedia. On Monday I learned of Google’s second annual Summer of Code<\/a> initiative where, in a nutshell, college students can get paid to work on approved open source projects. Since the project as outlined above, with the roadmap and deliverables\/milestones, seems ideal for this mentoring concept, I submitted FFmpeg as a project for consideration, albeit a few hours after the formal deadline for doing so. Since the SoC is quite popular, it’s likely that they have all the projects they need. <\/p>\n

However, if a student is out there following this blog and interested in working on a very important piece of open source multimedia work, you will have the opportunity starting May 1 to submit an application to work on a project not listed with an official mentoring organization, per this SoC FAQ entry<\/a>. It’s a long shot, but Google has sponsored more ambitious stuff.<\/p>\n

A big task? You bet. But if you follow this blog you’re probably at least minimally qualified to tackle the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Progress WILL be made…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-source-multimedia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t