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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-hard<br>
'''Tools''': x264, JM, ffmpeg, Linux, git<br>
'''Time''': 5 days<br>
'''Possible Mentors''': Jason Garrett-Glaser (Dark Shikari)<br>

== CLI development ==

'''Category''': Video filtering<br>
'''Description''': Port ''any'' video filter to x264!<br>
'''Details''': x264 recently got a filtering system that allows users to process video before encoding -- resizing, cropping, and so forth.  We'd like to add fancier filters by porting them from other projects, like mplayer's libmpcodecs.  These could include denoising, sharpening, blurring, and so forth.<br>

You can pick ''any filter you want'' and port it -- just make sure to ask first to make sure that it would make sense in the context of x264.<br>

Do note all filters must reach the code quality standards of x264, so in some cases you may need to do more than just copy-pasting: reformatting code, etc.<br>

'''Outcome''': A new filter in x264.<br>
'''Difficulty''': hard<br>
'''Tools''': x264<br>
'''Time''': 7 days<br>
'''Possible Mentors''': Jason Garrett-Glaser (Dark Shikari), James Darnley (J_Darnley), Steven Walters (kemuri-_9)<br>

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

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