{"id":538,"date":"2008-03-21T21:35:42","date_gmt":"2008-03-22T05:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/gsoc-multimedia-competition\/"},"modified":"2008-03-21T21:37:53","modified_gmt":"2008-03-22T05:37:53","slug":"gsoc-multimedia-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/gsoc-multimedia-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"GSoC Multimedia Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/soc\/2008\/\">2008 Google Summer of Code<\/a> participating organizations have been selected. Like <a href=\"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/soc-multimedia\/\">last year<\/a>, I wanted to survey what other multimedia-type projects are doing. Fortunately, instead of clicking on each individual project in the official Google listing to figure out which ones might be vaguely multimedia-related, the <a href=\"http:\/\/genmapp.org\/\">GenMAPP project<\/a> (also a participating organization) has <a href=\"http:\/\/genmapp.org\/gsoc\/mentors_by_category.htm\">organized the various projects by category<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Multimedia category projects include BBC Research, FFmpeg, GStreamer, Neuros Technology, XBMC, and Xiph.org. Tangential to multimedia are the 2 TV &#038; Video category projects, Dirac Schroedinger (separate from BBC) and VideoLan.<\/p>\n<p>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/xbmc.org\/wiki\/?title=Google_Summer_of_Code_2008\">XBMC&#8217;s SoC project page<\/a>. If you have been active with <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.multimedia.cx\/index.php?title=FFmpeg_Summer_Of_Code_2008\">FFmpeg&#8217;s own SoC page<\/a>, it should seem charmingly familiar. Eh, it&#8217;s all GFDL, I guess.<\/p>\n<p>Then there is the Audio &#038; Music category: Atheme, Audacity, CLAM, Mixxx, and XMMS2. I hadn&#8217;t heard of Atheme before. I can&#8217;t quite nail down what it is they do, but they seem to have a number of ambitious software projects under their umbrella. And one of their <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.atheme.org\/SummerOfCode2008Ideas\">proposed SoC endeavors<\/a> is &#8220;Support for RealAudio: Implement an input plugin for the RealAudio codec, preferably with support for streaming as well as files.&#8221; Seems a bit understated.<\/p>\n<p>These are some other projects that caught my eye at a cursory glance:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Our <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.videolan.org\/SoC_2008\">VideoLAN<\/a> brothers are also sponsoring projects for x264 improvements.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/audacityteam.org\/wiki\/index.php?title=GSoC_Ideas\">Audacity proposes<\/a> a project for better FFmpeg integration.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/schrodinger.sourceforge.net\/ideas.php\">Schroedinger proposes<\/a> a project to implement Dirac in Java.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.xiph.org\/index.php\/Summer_of_Code#OggPusher\">Xiph proposes<\/a> several projects that directly improve upon FFmpeg itself, including fixing my mistakes in the existing VP3\/Theora decoder.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/software\/gnash\/\">Gnash project<\/a> is not directly involved but seems to be an adjunct of at least 3 projects that I have found: <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.neurostechnology.com\/index.php\/Summer_of_Code_2008\">Neuros Technology<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/software\/soc-projects\/ideas.html\">GNU<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.laptop.org\/go\/Summer%20of%20Code\/Ideas\">OLPC<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Speaking of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neurostechnology.com\/\">Neuros Technology<\/a>, this is the first time I have heard of them. They produce an open platform as a digital media center. GSoC participants will receive <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.neurostechnology.com\/index.php\/Neuros_OSD\">one of the items<\/a>. Tantalizing. No such perks for working on FFmpeg. But I would like to remind prospective GSoC participants that FFmpeg offers valuable real world experience in the form of working long, thankless hours for a set of abusive, anti-social, impossible-to-please bosses on a rarely acknowledged piece of backend software. This is training you don&#8217;t get in school.<\/p>\n<p>The application process begins bright and early on Monday morning (March 24). And don&#8217;t forget your qualification task.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2008 Google Summer of Code participating organizations have been selected. Like last year, I wanted to survey what other multimedia-type projects are doing. 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