{"id":535,"date":"2008-03-17T14:44:05","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T22:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/ffmpeg-hazing-ritual\/"},"modified":"2008-03-17T14:44:57","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T22:44:57","slug":"ffmpeg-hazing-ritual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/ffmpeg-hazing-ritual\/","title":{"rendered":"FFmpeg Hazing Ritual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The pilot for an American TV show called <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Greek_(TV_series)\"><em>Greek<\/em><\/a> was a free download on Apple iTunes recently. I&#8217;m just as eager as the next open source software developer to brainlessly give a try to free stuff, so I checked it out. The show centers around some participants in the Greek-lettered fraternity and sorority system present on many college campuses. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hazing\">Hazing<\/a> plays a role.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Greek_alphabet\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/eggs\/images\/ffmpeg-greek.png\" alt=\"FFmpeg transliterated to Greek alphabet\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>This caused me to consider <a href=\"http:\/\/ffmpeg.org\/\">FFmpeg<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/soc\/2008\/\">Google Summer of Code<\/a> in the context of fraternities. GSoC is a college activity, like the Greek system. Participation might help your career along, post-school (an alleged rationale for joining a fraternity). And if you want to be initiated into the FFmpeg brotherhood, you are required to submit to a ritual known as the qualification task.<\/p>\n<p>This would be a good time to mention that <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/soc\/2008\/ffmpeg\/about.html\">FFmpeg has been accepted into the GSoC<\/a> for a third year in a row. Students who have any interest in working on a summer FFmpeg project on Google&#8217;s dime need to make their interest known on the <a href=\"https:\/\/lists.mplayerhq.hu\/mailman\/listinfo\/ffmpeg-devel\">ffmpeg-devel list<\/a> and publicly claim a qualification hazing ritual.<\/p>\n<p>Also, it seems that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.videolan.org\/developers\/x264.html\">x264 project<\/a> wants in on some of the GSoC action, as indicated by their <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.multimedia.cx\/index.php?title=X264_Summer_Of_Code_2008\">new adjunct Wiki page<\/a>. This only creates ever more exciting opportunities. Wouldn&#8217;t you like to be a part?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pilot for an American TV show called Greek was a free download on Apple iTunes recently. I&#8217;m just as eager as the next open source software developer to brainlessly give a try to free stuff, so I checked it out. The show centers around some participants in the Greek-lettered fraternity and sorority system present [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-source-multimedia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535","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=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}