{"id":416,"date":"2007-04-13T08:04:32","date_gmt":"2007-04-13T15:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/gsoc-evaluation-tasks\/"},"modified":"2007-04-14T09:55:17","modified_gmt":"2007-04-14T16:55:17","slug":"gsoc-evaluation-tasks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/gsoc-evaluation-tasks\/","title":{"rendered":"GSoC Evaluation Tasks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If a student wanted to make the <a href=\"http:\/\/ffmpeg.org\/\">FFmpeg<\/a> cut for the <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/soc\/\">2007 Google Summer of Code<\/a>, they were required to complete a qualification task. They could select these tasks from a preset list on <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.multimedia.cx\/index.php?title=Summer_Of_Code_2007\">our GSoC Wiki page<\/a>, or they could submit their own idea for approval. In completing a task, the student demonstrated that they:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>were willing to commit some time over the 3-week app review period to prove themselves<\/li>\n<li>could code C satisfactorily and with the same general style expected of the FFmpeg codebase<\/li>\n<li>could wrap their head around the code base<\/li>\n<li>could interact with the FFmpeg development mailing list<\/li>\n<li>could accept feedback and revise the code until it was suitable for inclusion in the main code base<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We got some good labor out of the qualifying students. Here are some of the things that FFmpeg can now do, thanks to the GSoC qualification tasks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.multimedia.cx\/index.php?title=THP\">THP<\/a> playback subsystem<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.multimedia.cx\/index.php?title=Bethsoft_VID\">Bethsoft VID<\/a> playback subsystem<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.multimedia.cx\/index.php?title=C93\">C93<\/a> playback subsystem<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.multimedia.cx\/index.php?title=TIFF\">TIFF<\/a> encoder, with LZW support<\/li>\n<li>support for <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.multimedia.cx\/index.php?title=Theora\">Theora<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.multimedia.cx\/index.php?title=Matroska\">Matroska<\/a><\/li>\n<li>SGI image subsystem ported to latest API<\/li>\n<li>Targa encoder <em>(thanks to Ben for the reminder)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If a student wanted to make the FFmpeg cut for the 2007 Google Summer of Code, they were required to complete a qualification task. They could select these tasks from a preset list on our GSoC Wiki page, or they could submit their own idea for approval. In completing a task, the student demonstrated that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-hacking","category-open-source-multimedia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}