SoC 2010 Phonon Capture API

This project is part of Google Summer of Code 2010. Student: Casian Andrei Mentor: Hugo Beauzee-Luyssen

Phonon High-level Capture API

Abstract

The goal of this project is to enable Phonon applications to access and display input devices, like webcams. The Phonon code-base is well designed and flexible, and apparently no major modifications are needed to the current API. The ease of use for the Phonon application developer is a priority. Features implemented in Phonon will be implemented in the Phonon-VLC back-end in parallel. Various device classes should be supported.

Information

The exam session lasts here most of June, so I won't be able to work at full capacity during this time (I hope I can achieve 50%-75% of the July work time).

If extra time remains, I will work on improving the overall quality of Phonon.

Timeline

The following timeline may be a bit optimistic, but I will try to respect it. It will be revised during the summer if neccessary. By revised I mean adding smaller tasks, not removing tasks or delaying.

Date	Status	Description
May 10 - May 24	In progress	Setup development environment, test things, play with the code
May 24 - June 15	In progress	Setup MediaSource to handle capture devices, implement in Phonon-VLC
June 15 - June 25	Not started	Link video and audio capture devices in AVCapture
June 25 - July 12	Not started	Test, improve, simplify the classes implemented previously
July 12 - July 25	Not started	Improve Phonon-VLC - document code, implement some lacking API
July 25 - August 16	Not started	Implement the capture API in other backends

Repositories

There is one repo for Phonon and one for the Phonon-VLC backend.

• http://gitorious.org/~skelet/phonon/soc-phonon-capture-api
• http://gitorious.org/~skelet/phonon/soc-phonon-vlc-capture-api