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Originally posted by yotambien View PostH264? At this point wouldn't vp8 make more sense? Or am I missing something?
For better or worse, H264 is what most people use at the moment, so it's a good starting point.
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H264? At this point wouldn't vp8 make more sense? Or am I missing something?
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Better yet separate them by
Proposals (to be purged after a period of inactivity)
Actively developed (with some sort of time frame required for activity)
Inactive but archived.
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Originally posted by pingufunkybeat View PostBy that metric, more than 90% of ALL open source projects are useless.
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Originally posted by deanjo View PostWhy? Because if the code is not continuing development it becomes quickly outdated and useless in the open source world causing others to duplicate the effort later on.
So 30% is an excellent value.
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Originally posted by TechMage89 View PostAlso, why are we jumping straight to full H.264 decoding? Wouldn't a motion-compensation implementation using vaapi and Gallium3D be the right place to start?
I would say that it is exactly the right time to look at expanding this to more complex codecs and more modern APIs.
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Yes there are many ambitious projects on offer, but there's often alot of easier tasks available aswell. If the student bites off more than he can chew it's not really the fault of the projects themselves. Still, I'd say that if this is a repeated pattern then it would probably be wise for the projects to lower the requirements of their propositions.
But when we are talking about stuff like gcc, llvm, kernels etc, there's not going to be a whole lot of 'easy' tasks, so here it's pretty much up to the student and the mentor evaluating her/him to make a correct assessment, which is obviously hard.
But overall, Google Summer of Code is a great initiative which has not only contributed a great deal of good code to numerous open source projects, but more importantly introduced all these students to these projects, which they may not even have bothered looking at had it not been for GSOC. I certainly wish there had been something like this back when I was a student, sure would have beaten working in electronics retail and all the other stuff I did during summer break to earn extra cash.
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Originally posted by smitty3268 View PostThat sounds an awful lot like you're saying it goes unmaintained and is therefore useless.
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