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= Google Code In =

This page is about gathering '''ideas''' for the x264 project for acceptance in the [http://code.google.com/opensource/gci/2010-11/index.html Google Code In 2010-2011] program.

x264 has been part of Videolan's [http://code.google.com/soc/ Google Summer of Code] in [[SoC_2008|2008]], [[SoC_2009|2009]] and [[SoC_2010|2010]].

= Ideas for x264 =

== Warning ==
This is a temporary page for listing ideas for Google Code-in tasks. 

The final tasks will be moved to melange, when needed.

== Tools ==
'''Category''': Quality Assurance<br>
'''Description''': Automated regression test tool<br>
'''Details''': x264 has no standard regression test tool, and all the developers rely on their own scripts.  An automated regression test tool should be able to:

* Test any two revisions against each other.
* Test a wide variety of x264 settings combinations.  We can help you here by giving you some of the existing scripts.
* Report the status of a revision: working (basic regression test passes), broken (basic regression test fails), crash, etc.
*  Report the difference between any two revisions (output differs, output is identical, which tests' output differs, etc).

'''Outcome''': A regression test script (in Bash, Perl, Python, or similar)<br>
'''Difficulty''': medium<br>
'''Tools''': x264, JM, ffmpeg, Linux, git<br>
'''Time''': 3 days<br>
'''Mentor''': Dark Shikari<br>

== Contact ==
For ANY question, contact [[User:Dark Shikari]], preferably on IRC.

IRC channel: #x264dev on irc://irc.freenode.net