From: Stefan K. <en...@ho...> - 2008-03-22 19:49:57
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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, > - decoder and encoder card support, > - ip camera support native or trough rtp, > - 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. > - and the most important to do a lots of fixes to make gstreamer more > robust. > - 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 |