[LAD] Xiph.org Call for Student Projects

[Stefan Kost]

Conrad Parker schrieb:
> Xiph.org/Annodex.net seeking Summer of Code student applications!
>
> 2009 is an important year for free codecs: Ogg Vorbis on every Android
> device, Ogg Theora support in development for Mozilla Firefox 3.5, and
> expanded Ogg hosting by the Internet Archive and Wikimedia. Xiph.org
> and Annodex.net, who develop free codecs (Ogg Vorbis, Theora, Dirac,
> Speex, CELT, FLAC) and web video support for them, have been selected
> as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2009.
>
> We are actively seeking student projects for Summer of Code.
> A list of project suggestions is at:
>
> http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/Summer_of_Code_2009
>
> Students should feel free to select one of these, develop a variation,
> or propose their own ideas! Some examples:
>
>  * Develop a conference bridge or reference SIP client for CELT, the
> new, ultra-low delay audio codec that bridges the gap between Vorbis
> and Speex for applications where both high quality audio and low delay
> are desired. If you enjoy hacking on networks, you'll have fun with
> these CELT projects.
>
>  * Develop components to support all Ogg codecs for OpenMAX IL, the
> media plugins used in Maemo, Android and LIMO mobile devices. This
> touches on many interesting projects, and is perfect for anyone with
> an interest in mobile and embedded systems who wants a broad
> introduction to multimedia codecs.
>   
Hej,
Maemo uses GStreamer as a middleware. the use of openmax il for some
codecs is an implementation detail. We're happy having gstreamer plugins
for all ogg codecs. Having more optimizations in there (e.g. trying to
use orc [1] in there) would be rather interesting though. schroedinger
(dirac implementation) has some orc optimizations already and it looks
really promissing.

Stefan

[1] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~ds/orc
>  * Write a JavaScript Library for Subtitles, Captions and other
> time-aligned text. The main focus of this project is around enabling
> video accessibility for Ogg in Firefox. The project requires a student
> with experience in JavaScript development, HTML and CSS, but also with
> some understanding of C for liboggplay and libkate, and of C++ for
> Firefox.
>
>  * Make a Proof of Concept for HTML5 Ogg Video support in the Chromium
> Browser, using liboggplay (our Ogg Theora playback library, as used in
> Mozilla Firefox). Full support for HTML5 <video> is a lot of work, but
> let's get the ball rolling with a proof of concept for Theora frame
> decoding and rendering.
>
>  * Add support for import and export of XSPF playlists to Songbird, the
> Mozilla-powered open music player. This project requires good XML foo, the
> opportunity to work with cross-platform XUL and JavaScript, and perhaps
> some C++.
>
>
> Submissions
>
> The student application period starts on Monday (March 23):
>
> http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/program/google/gsoc2009/timeline
>
> and runs for a little under 2 weeks, until Friday April 3.
>
> Details of our application process are at:
>
> http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/Summer_of_Code_Applications
>
> Interested students *must* get involved with the project development
> community, on project mailing lists and IRC, before the application
> deadline. When selecting projects, preference will be given to
> students who have submitted at least one patch to a Xiph.org or
> Annodex.net project before the application deadline.
>
> Students will receive a grant from Google for successful work on their GSoC
> projects. Hacking on free multimedia projects is fun and can have a big impact.
> We need students who love to hack, to help put support for free codecs
> into more applications, browsers and networks.
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