[gst-devel] gsoc 2008

[Edward Hervey]

Farkas,

On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 21:49 +0200, Stefan Kost wrote:
> hi,
> 
> Farkas Levente schrieb:
> > hi,
> > we found gstreamer is a very promising project for linux. unfortunately 
> > is far from complete and robust. i've got a few student who would like 
> > to take part in gsoc in this year and one of the most interesting 
> > project would be to further develop and fix gstreamer. we think about 
> > one or two student (but it can be even 4) to make the video part better.
> > - write more source filter for different hardware component like 
> > multichannel grabber card and tv card,

  Can you give some examples of what tv cards ? Don't they already have
v4l or v4l2 support ?

> > - decoder and encoder card support,

  What cards ?

> > - ip camera support native or trough rtp,

  Can you give examples of what cameras you have in mind ? The rtp stack
has been tested quite a lot with rtp cameras (including by one of the
biggest ip-camera manufacturer).

> > - fix the current rtp code. as we test it currently gstreamer crash with 
> > real rtp source like ip camera while mplayer, vlc and xine works fine. 
> > or even do a clean rtp implementation since the current code depends on 
> >  ffmpeg.

  what do you mean by "real rtp source" ? What crashes are you
experiencing ? What operatin system are you running ? What version of
gstreamer and plugins are you using ? Furthermore the gstreamer rtp
implementation does *NOT* depend on ffmpeg. I don't know how you came to
that conclusion.

> > - and the most important to do a lots of fixes to make gstreamer more 
> > robust.

  What kind of fixes do you have in mind ?

> > - any any other basic not gstreamer coding which would be useful for 
> > gstreamer.
> > all of these student in his last year of his M.s.C as programmer 2 of 
> > them already write a few filter for gstreamer and has a few month of 
> > knowledge about gstreamer.
> > what do you think about it?
> > thank you for your help in advance.
> > yours.
> > 
> 
> I've put the developer list in CC. GStreamer is quite a big and fast moving 
> project and I work more on the audio side and don't want to tell anything wrong. 
>   Regardless your students are very welcome to apply for SoC project within 
> GStremaer. We have already listed a few projects under:
> http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/wiki/SocProjects
> but these are just poposals from our side. Regarding your sugestions:
> * the multichannel grabber card and tv card sounds good
> * decoder and encoder card support sounds good too
> * regarding the rtp code, its imho quite good already, there are some real 
> specific elements in plugins-ugly and -plugins-bad. Be sure to have them in use.
> * regarding the robustness, we have a unit.test framework in use. Contributions 
> of further tests (e.g. for rtp) are very welcome.
> 
> I recommend your students to come to the gstreamer irc channel on freenode, 
> introduce themself and work on a project proposal, taking the feedback from the 
> developers into account.
> 
> Thanks for your offer
> 
> Stefan
> 
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