{"id":539,"date":"2008-03-22T11:14:57","date_gmt":"2008-03-22T19:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/2008-gsoc-qual-showcase-1\/"},"modified":"2008-03-22T19:58:20","modified_gmt":"2008-03-23T03:58:20","slug":"2008-gsoc-qual-showcase-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/2008-gsoc-qual-showcase-1\/","title":{"rendered":"2008 GSoC Qualification Showcase #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The application process for <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/soc\/2008\/\">Google&#8217;s Summer of Code 2008 season<\/a> is not even open yet, but people interested in participating with <a href=\"http:\/\/ffmpeg.org\/\">FFmpeg<\/a> are already busy on their qualification tasks.<\/p>\n<p>Ramiro Polla submitted a system that can demux captured MSN video streams and play them back using a video codec known as <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.multimedia.cx\/index.php?title=Mimic\">Mimic<\/a>. Here is the system in action:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/eggs\/images\/i-heart-ffmpeg.jpg\" alt=\"I [heart] FFmpeg\" \/><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Sascha Sommer has completed a playback system for the <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.multimedia.cx\/index.php?title=RL2\">RL2 file format<\/a>, which figured heavily into a CD-ROM game called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobygames.com\/game\/dos\/voyeur\">Voyeur<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/eggs\/images\/voyeur-fmv-title.png\" alt=\"Voyeur FMV title\" \/><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>There are still some qualification tasks left unclaimed on the <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.multimedia.cx\/index.php?title=FFmpeg_Summer_Of_Code_2008\">FFmpeg GSoC page<\/a>. And if we run out, we can make more, so don&#8217;t despair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The application process for Google&#8217;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. 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