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Google Summer of Code 2012.

This wiki page covers the attempt of the VideoLAN project to become a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code, in order to improve VLC media player, and other VideoLAN projects.

Introduction & Information

VideoLAN was a mentoring organization in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011.

If you are a student, please read the rules and advice.

About VLC media player

VLC media player is a cross-platform multimedia player, encoder and streamer application. It is one of the most successful open-source projects without any professional structure underneath. VLC media player is downloaded at an approximate monthly rate of 9 millions from the main website and that's not including third-party distributions (Linux)!

You can find more information on VLC on Wikipedia or on this wiki.

Ideas

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This page is split in three lists of ideas:

The key ideas are what seem to be key projects for VLC and should be more thrilling than the other ones; we have assigned a potential mentor to each of these.
The cool ideas are less detailed but could be good ideas too.
Mini Projects are short-span projects which can be given as Qualification tasks or extended to be Full Summer of Code project.

Original good ideas will be valued. Last year, the best ideas were given by students. We don't want to impose anything. This is free and Open Source software.

If you don't want to apply for SoC but want other ideas to develop on, check the Mini Projects page!

Key ideas for VLC

New Audio Filters

We are looking for a skilled audiophile that knows a lot about audio theory and practice:

to create or implement new algorithms, like SRS WoW or other 3D effects
to work on channels mixing, down-mixing and up-mixing,
to work on tracks mixing,
to create scriptable new audio filters in lua and enable users to create whatever audio filtering function they want in a Lua script.
LADSPA or other libraries integration will be interesting.

This project needs some good audio knowledge and good C experience.

Qualification task: port any audio filter from MPlayer

Proposed mentor: geal

UPNP DLNA Server and Client

Test and fix service discovery module for UPNP/DLNA shares done by software (mediatomb, xbmc, etc) and hardware implementations.

Provide DLNA plugin for DLNA server compliant with opensource (xbmc, djmount, etc) and proprietary (PS3, xbox360, etc) DLNA clients. Some of the work is already done by previous SoC students.

The plugin must be smart enough to provide "presets" for known DLNA media clients with limited features (PS3 or XBOX360 for starters) which require additional quirks or hacks or items to be transcoded or streamed.

Requires some VLC knowledge as the project will involve using Media Library (arriving in vlc 1.2) and transcoding with VLC API.

Proposed mentor: thresh

Assembly optimizations in VLC

If you are fond of writing ASM and you are fluent in MMX/SSE2/SSE4 or NEON, there are many interesting things in VLC to speed up.

Profiling VLC.
memcpy implementations in NEON, SSE* and MMX (see modules/misc/memcpy/fastmemcpy.h)
video filters ASM speedups (see modules/video_filter/blend.cpp)
audio filters ASM speedups (see modules/audio_filter/equalizer.c and channel_mixers)
Porting other ASM video filters to VLC.

This project needs some good ASM knowledge and good C experience.

Stuff to read: http://www.agner.org/optimize/

Proposed mentor: jb

VLC Test Suite

This project aims at making automatic tests to improve VLC quality.

Write a series of tests for vlc-internal
Integrate a framework for automated plugins testing with the automake build system
Automate the different codec playback/mux/etc tests
Automate the subtitles tests
Write tests for the different bindings: Mac OS X Framework/Python Bindings... etc.

This project is a code project, require good knowledge of C

Proposed mentor: Rémi

Extensions downloads from VLC

We are getting more and more extensions.

But, to use them, you need to go on some website for that. A direct integration, like Firefox, would be nice.

Proposed mentor: chouquette

VLC Personnal Cloud Project 2.0

The personal cloud project is a simple project to allow people to play their media files anywhere in the world.

Through the http interface of VLC, a user can:

list the medias from the Media Library,
play those medias,
those medias get transcoded and streamed in:
- Flash
- Silverlight
- iPhone format
- Android format
- html5
- A VLC webplugin

A good example of the aim is http://www.vodobox.c.la/

This project has to work on the configuration and NAT traversal.

This projects needs knowledge in HTML and JS; it might require C coding.

Proposed mentor: jb

AirPlay streaming and client

We need to be able to stream everything to and from your iDevices/Mac.

Proposed mentor: bjustin

Android port improvements

The VLC port for Android is very limited.

It needs:

a better UI for networking
integration with the desktop VLC.
faster codecs
fast filters
more features

Proposed mentor: xilasz

BD-J / BD-Live

This is a project to work on Bly-Ray menus and interactivity improvements.

This project requires a good Java knowledge

Proposed mentor: hpi

Service Discoveries improvements

The integration of external services are too simple and too limited so far.

We need a proper UI and branding of services like Shoutcast and such.

Proposed mentor: jb

New streaming / transcoding UI for the Mac OS X interface

Remove the old ui and replace it with something more contemporary, which is both easy to use for starters and includes all the nice bells and whistles for the pros. Additionally, compile a reasonable list of presets and investigate ways for expanding the existing possibilities (e.g. "Upload to Youtube", "Convert for iPhone", etc.). We will provide help with the design, if needed.

You will need a Mac running OS X 10.6 or later and Cocoa programming experience. Experience with CoreAnimation is a strong plus.

Proposed mentor: feepk

Support for Adobe HTTP Dynamic Streaming (F4M)

We need to be able to read Flash Media Manifests (also known as F4M) according to this spec.

Proposed mentor: fyhuel

Cool Ideas for VLC

DVD audio support

Very difficult project for Audio fans

Proposed mentor: jb

BD+ VM improvements support

Working on the implentation of the VM for the Blu-Ray BD+ technology would be nice.

Proposed mentor: jb

Device synchronisation

Sync your mp3 player with the media library

Proposed mentor: jetru

HD DVD support

Very difficult project for someone having the right hardware

Proposed mentor: jb

Multi-Angle DVD support

We need multi-angle DVD support

Proposed mentor: Meuuh

VLM UI for the Mac OS X interface

Implement an easy-to-use, yet customizable and complete UI for the VideoLAN Media Manager, which allows VLC to stream multiple unicast, multicast and Video-on-Demand streams within a single instance.

You will need a Mac running OS X 10.6 or later and Cocoa programming experience. A basic understanding of media streams is definitely preferable.

Note that this task is too small for an entire summer and should be combined with another topic.

Proposed mentor: feepk

Bada Port

Port VLC on Samsung Bada OS.

You will need a device.

Proposed mentor: jpeg

QNX/Playbook Port

Port VLC on QNX/BB10 with a playbook.

You will need a device.

Proposed mentor: funman

iOS Port

Update VLC's iOS port to the current code, expand the existing UI for media streams and update the iPad interface for the newly introduced retina display.

You will need a device and Cocoa / Cocoa Touch programming experience.

Proposed mentor: feepk'

WebOS Port

Port VLC on the WebOS.

You will need a device.

Proposed mentor: funman

NaCl Port

Port VLC on the NaCl platform for Google Chrome OS.

Proposed mentor: ???

SVCD/VCD improvements

Menus and other evolved functionnalities needs to be improved and fixed. This requires some old discs.

Proposed mentor: fenrir

QStyle port of VLC interface

Rewriting an important part of the VLC interface using QStyle instead of PaintEvent would be very nice.

Proposed mentor: etix

VLMC

VLMC is a non-linear cross-platform video editor based on VLC. We're looking for student(s) with good C++ skills and some experience with Qt with lots of passion of hacking.

Hang with us at #vlmc or #videolan on irc.freenode.net and talk to the developers directly!

To get selected:

1. Download and build VLMC and start playing with it.

2. Implement some feature(s) or fix some bug(s), search VLMC's bug tracker.

3. Send your patch to vlmc-devel@videolan.org for evaluation and work on your GSoC proposal.

4. Get selected and work on your project!

You'll be greatly appreciated if you complete any of the proposed qualification tasks: (in increasing level of difficulty)

1. Bug 134: Update labels and strings when locale is changed.

2. Bug 61: Improve project timeline widget to have clip thumbnail.

3. Bug 145: Project preview has no sound on Windows.

4. Bug 196: Fix distorted audio playback in project preview.

5. Bug 144: On some platforms, rendered video file has no sound. Identify the problem and fix it.

GUI Improvements

Difficulty: Medium

Proposed mentor: etix

VLMC needs a GUI make over, using Qt APIs such as graphics view, animation, states etc. Correcting those widgets such as the import window, provide alternative widget so VLMC better fits with the video editing needs.

Many widgets can be rewritten : Import, Library, Clip property... be creative !

Quality Improvements: Writing Tests and fixing LibVLC APIs

Difficulty: Hard

Proposed mentor: ? (needs a VLC developer to mentor this one)

While rendering preview and project, VLMC may sometimes crash due to bugs in the libVLC. The project will consist of; writing (unit) tests/test-cases for VLMC/libVLC APIs, and identify what's causing the crashes and fixing the bugs. The major area is rendering. Testing should be verified on at least two of the OSs: Linux, Windows and Mac. This project can help VLMC have stable releases and better quality control.

Plugin Architecture for VLMC

Difficulty: Hard

Proposed mentor: ?

VLMC uses frei0r plugins to add special effects. The project consists of designing and implementing a plugin architecture that can take in lua/python/compiled-plugins(.so) plugins.

VideoLAN Google Summer of Code (GSoC/SoC) mentoring projects

2007 • 2008 • 2009 • 2010 • 2011 (GCi 2011 • SOCIS x264 2011) • ~~2012~~ • ~~2013~~ • 2016 • 2017 • 2018 • 2019 • 2020 • 2021 • 2022 • 2023 • 2024

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 == Introduction &amp; Information  ==
-[[VideoLAN]] was a mentoring organization in [[SoC 2007|2007]], [[SoC 2008|2008]], [[SoC 2009|2009]], [[SoC 2010|2010]], and [[SoC 2011|2011]]
+[[VideoLAN]] was a mentoring organization in [[SoC 2007|2007]], [[SoC 2008|2008]], [[SoC 2009|2009]], [[SoC 2010|2010]], and [[SoC 2011|2011]].
-If you are a '''student''', please read [[SoC 2011 Rules|the rules and advice]].
+If you are a '''student''', please read [[SoC 2012 Rules|the rules and advice]].
-=== VLC media player  ===
+=== About VLC media player  ===
-{{VLC}} is a cross-platform multimedia player, encoder and streamer application. It is one of the most successful open-source projects without any professional structure underneath.
+{{VLC}} is a cross-platform multimedia player, encoder and streamer application. It is one of the most successful open-source projects without any professional structure underneath. {{VLC}} is downloaded at an approximate monthly rate of 9 millions from the main website and that's not including third-party distributions (Linux)!
-{{VLC}} is downloaded at an approximate monthly rate of 9 millions from the main website and that's not including third-party distributions (Linux)!
 You can find more information on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLC_media_player VLC on Wikipedia] or on this [[Main Page|wiki]].
-=== Summer of Code  ===
-If selected and developed, SoC projects for VLC will be included in later releases; SoC projects for x264 will be included in the main tree of the project.
-All projects are covered by either the GPL or the LGPL licences. (v2+)
 === Ideas ===
@@ Line 30: / Line 22: @@
 This page is split in three lists of ideas:
-#The ''main ideas'' are what seem to be ''key projects'' for VLC and should be more ''thrilling'' than the other ones; we have assigned a potential mentor to each of these.
+# The ''key ideas'' are what seem to be ''key projects'' for VLC and should be more ''thrilling'' than the other ones; we have assigned a potential mentor to each of these.
-#The other ideas are less detailed but could be good ideas too.
+# The ''cool'' ideas are less detailed but could be good ideas too.
-#[[Mini Projects]] are short-span projects which can be given as Qualification tasks or extended to be Full Summer of Code project.
+# [[Mini Projects]] are short-span projects which can be given as Qualification tasks or extended to be Full Summer of Code project.
-*'''Original good ideas will be valued'''. Last year, the best ideas were given by students. We don't want to impose anything. This is free and Open Source software.
-If you don't want to apply for SoC but want other ideas to develop on, check the [[Mini Projects]] page!
+'''Original good ideas will be valued'''. Last year, the best ideas were given by students. We don't want to impose anything. This is free and Open Source software.
+If you don't want to apply for SoC but want other ideas to develop on, check the [[Mini Projects]] page!
-And on the IRC channel, you can have even more ideas.
 == Key ideas for VLC  ==
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 ''Proposed mentor: [[User:Geal|geal]]''
 === UPNP DLNA Server and Client  ===
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 ''Proposed mentor: [[User:J-b|jb]]''
-=== VLC Android Port ===
-Improve current VLC [http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc/vlc-android.git;a=summary android port], improve/add native/java interfaces and design and implement a GUI.
-The project can be broken into:
-* Build libvlc jni, understand LibVlc.
-* Design and implement a cool GUI with gestures and using LibVlc implement callbacks, map user events etc.
-''Proposed mentors: ivoire''
 === VLC Test Suite  ===
@@ Line 110: / Line 94: @@
 ''Proposed mentor: Rémi''
+=== Extensions downloads from VLC ===
+We are getting more and more extensions.
+But, to use them, you need to go on some website for that. A direct integration, like Firefox, would be nice.
+''Proposed mentor: chouquette''
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-=== VLC for Anime  ===
+=== AirPlay streaming and client ===
-We are looking for a skilled '''anime fan''' that knows a lot about anime theory and practice to work on the optimisation of VLC for anime.
+We need to be able to stream everything to and from your iDevices/Mac.
-Ideas include:
-* Improvement of MKV demuxer for special anime needs
+''Proposed mentor: bjustin''
-* Subtitles display improvements
-* video filters that make sense for anime
-* metadata and extensions.
-''Proposed mentor: jb''
+=== Android port improvements ===
-=== SVCD/VCD improvements  ===
+The VLC port for Android is very limited.
-Menus and such needs to be improvements and fixed.
+It needs:
+* a better UI for networking
+* integration with the desktop VLC.
+* faster codecs
+* fast filters
+* more features
-Proposed mentor: "fenrir"
+''Proposed mentor: xilasz''
-=== Automatic LibVLC bindings generation ===
-libVLC can be used from several programming languages like Java or python to embbed VLC feature inside another application. Anyway, maintaining these binding is power consuming.
+=== BD-J / BD-Live ===
-VLC needs a way to automatically generate theses binding for a large set of programming languages and keep them up-to-date easily.
-We advice to use Swig (from http://www.swig.org/) but any other tool is accepted too.
-* [[SoC 2011/Generator of libVLC bindings for other languages|Generator of libVLC bindings for other languages]]
-''Proposed mentor: ivoire''
+This is a project to work on Bly-Ray menus and interactivity improvements.
-=== OMA/Atrac improvements ===
+This project requires a good Java knowledge
-We need to improve the oma demuxer to support more features and work on the ATRAC3+ decoder in libavcodec, so people can play their files from MiniDiscs.
+''Proposed mentor: hpi''
-''Proposed mentors: Adrian, Michael or other people from linux-minidisc''
+=== Service Discoveries improvements ===
-=== Playlist improvements ===
+The integration of external services are too simple and too limited so far.
-We need to reinforce the media library capabilities and its integration with external metadata sources, notably for TV shows.
+We need a proper UI and branding of services like Shoutcast and such.
-''Proposed mentor: jetru''
+''Proposed mentor: jb''
-=== AirTune streaming ===
+=== New streaming / transcoding UI for the Mac OS X interface ===
+Remove the old ui and replace it with something more contemporary, which is both easy to use for starters and includes all the nice bells and whistles for the pros. Additionally, compile a reasonable list of presets and investigate ways for expanding the existing possibilities (e.g. "Upload to Youtube", "Convert for iPhone", etc.).
+We will provide help with the design, if needed.
-We need to be able to stream everything to your iPhone.
+You will need a Mac running OS X 10.6 or later and Cocoa programming experience. Experience with CoreAnimation is a strong plus.
-'''Proposed mentor'''
+''Proposed mentor: feepk''
-=== BD-J / BD-Live ===
-This is a project to go on the work of last year on Blu-Ray Menus
+=== Support for Adobe HTTP Dynamic Streaming (F4M) ===
-This project requires Java knowledge
+We need to be able to read Flash Media Manifests (also known as F4M) according to [http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/osmf.adobe/index.php?title=Flash_Media_Manifest_%28F4M%29_File_Format this spec].
-''Proposed mentor: jb'''
+''Proposed mentor: fyhuel''
-=== Http interface improvements ===
+== Cool Ideas for VLC  ==
-This is a project to fix and extend the http inteface (also called oldhttp)
+=== DVD audio support ===
+Very difficult project for Audio fans
-The http interface is used by many remote control apps on various platforms. This project would improve the capability of the interface - and thus enable more features in the various remotes that use it.
+''Proposed mentor: jb''
-* get the album art working
-**the interface is supposed to return the current album art at /art (assuming 'export album art' is enabled)
-**at the moment, this simply doesn't work.
-*enable playlist re-ordering
-**at the moment, there is no way in the http interface for the playlist order to be changed
-*enable access to the graphical equaliser
-**should provide a list of presets available
-**should provide info on each slider
-**should allow user to select a preset
-**should allow user to adjust a slider
-*speed control
-**allow speed to be set in the form host:8080/requests/status.xml?command=speed&val=<someVal>
-**show current speed as part of the status.xml response
-*subtitle delay control
-**(similar to speed control)
-*audio delay control
-**(similar to speed control)
-*enable selection of a subtitle file (by path)
-*add 'unminimise' command to the fullscreen command
-**the current fullscreen command just sets the bool value of fullscreen in VLC. However if vlc is minimised on Ubuntu (possibly windows), then fullscreen does nothing. To work as the user would expect, the command=fullscreen should a) set fullscreen b) unminimise VLC
-*add ability to control picture controls (brightness, contrast, etc)
-*implement pl_delete on luahttp
-*allow user to get drives list on windows (in oldHttp, user can browse to c:/..)
+=== BD+ VM improvements support ===
+Working on the implentation of the VM for the Blu-Ray BD+ technology would be nice.
-*and lots more...
+''Proposed mentor: jb''
-''Proposed mentor: confusedVorlon''
-== Other Ideas for VLC  ==
-=== WTV support ===
-Wtv format support
-''Proposed mentor: Laurent''
-=== DVD audio support ===
-Very difficult project for Audio fans
-''Proposed mentor: jb''
 === Device synchronisation===
 Sync your mp3 player with the media library
 ''Proposed mentor: jetru''
 === HD DVD support ===
 Very difficult project for someone having the right hardware
 ''Proposed mentor: jb''
 === Multi-Angle DVD support ===
 We need multi-angle DVD support
 ''Proposed mentor: Meuuh''
-== VLC&nbsp;Student Proposals ==
-=== Mobile Remote Control  ===
+=== VLM UI for the Mac OS X interface ===
+Implement an easy-to-use, yet customizable and complete UI for the VideoLAN Media Manager, which allows VLC to stream multiple unicast, multicast and Video-on-Demand streams within a single instance.
+You will need a Mac running OS X 10.6 or later and Cocoa programming experience. A basic understanding of media streams is definitely preferable.
+Note that this task is too small for an entire summer and should be combined with another topic.
+''Proposed mentor: feepk''
+=== Bada Port ===
+Port VLC on Samsung Bada OS.
+You will need a device.
+''Proposed mentor: jpeg''
+=== QNX/Playbook Port ===
+Port VLC on QNX/BB10 with a playbook.
+You will need a device.
+''Proposed mentor: funman''
+=== iOS Port ===
+Update VLC's iOS port to the current code, expand the existing UI for media streams and update the iPad interface for the newly introduced retina display.
+You will need a device and Cocoa / Cocoa Touch programming experience.
+''Proposed mentor: feepk'
+=== WebOS Port ===
+Port VLC on the WebOS.
+You will need a device.
+''Proposed mentor: funman''
+=== NaCl Port ===
+Port VLC on the NaCl platform for Google Chrome OS.
+''Proposed mentor: ???''
-(proposed by akashm1990)<br>
+=== SVCD/VCD improvements  ===
-The aim is to make a mobile remote control application for VLC running on the PC. This would be a native application.<br>
+Menus and other evolved functionnalities needs to be improved and fixed. This requires some old discs.
-The application will run on a mobile phone connected to the local network over WiFi.(probably using the http interface)<br>
+Proposed mentor: ''fenrir''
-In addition to the usual remote control functionalities such as play,pause, open new file,volume control,etc. the application aims to implement 2 specific functionalities:<br>
-*On receiving an incoming call, if a video is playing on the PC, it will pause, or if music is playing, the volume may reduce. (user configurable)<br>
+=== QStyle port of VLC interface ===
-*On receiving an incoming text message, the video playing on screen is paused and the text is displayed onscreen. After a predetermined period of time, the video starts playing again.<br>
-Target Platforms: Android(primary), Symbian-QT (If time permits) <br>
+Rewriting an important part of the VLC interface using QStyle instead of PaintEvent would be very nice.
-A video showing the auto pause functionality using Android emulators and the VLC Python API is shown here: <br>
+''Proposed mentor: etix''
-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou5prh-EoBs
 == VLMC  ==
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 . Get selected and work on your project!
 <br> You'll be greatly appreciated if you complete any of the proposed qualification tasks: (in increasing level of difficulty)
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 . [http://trac.videolan.org/vlmc/ticket/144 Bug 144]: On some platforms, rendered video file has no sound. Identify the problem and fix it.
 === GUI Improvements  ===
@@ Line 308: / Line 317: @@
 Many widgets can be rewritten&nbsp;: Import, Library, Clip property... be creative&nbsp;!
 === Quality Improvements: Writing Tests and fixing LibVLC APIs  ===
@@ Line 316: / Line 326: @@
 While rendering preview and project, VLMC may sometimes crash due to bugs in the libVLC. The project will consist of; writing (unit) tests/test-cases for VLMC/libVLC APIs, and identify what's causing the crashes and fixing the bugs. The major area is rendering. Testing should be verified on at least two of the OSs: Linux, Windows and Mac. This project can help VLMC have stable releases and better quality control.
 === Plugin Architecture for VLMC  ===
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 VLMC uses frei0r plugins to add special effects. The project consists of designing and implementing a plugin architecture that can take in lua/python/compiled-plugins(.so) plugins.
+{{GSoC}}
+[[Category:SoC]]

Difference between revisions of "SoC 2012"

Latest revision as of 07:04, 5 February 2019

Contents

Introduction & Information

About VLC media player

Ideas

Key ideas for VLC

New Audio Filters

UPNP DLNA Server and Client

Assembly optimizations in VLC

VLC Test Suite

Extensions downloads from VLC

VLC Personnal Cloud Project 2.0

AirPlay streaming and client

Android port improvements

BD-J / BD-Live

Service Discoveries improvements

New streaming / transcoding UI for the Mac OS X interface

Support for Adobe HTTP Dynamic Streaming (F4M)

Cool Ideas for VLC

DVD audio support

BD+ VM improvements support

Device synchronisation

HD DVD support

Multi-Angle DVD support

VLM UI for the Mac OS X interface

Bada Port

QNX/Playbook Port

iOS Port

WebOS Port

NaCl Port

SVCD/VCD improvements

QStyle port of VLC interface

VLMC

GUI Improvements

Quality Improvements: Writing Tests and fixing LibVLC APIs

Plugin Architecture for VLMC

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