GSoC 2015 Qualification tasks

Project	Qualification Mentor	Applicant Name	Applicant Nick	Applicant Email	Qualification Task	Complexity Index (mmh)	Date Given	Status	Date first submitted	Date Completed	Score
TrueHD encoder	Ramiro Polla	Priya Bansal	Priya	​priyabansal.hr@gmail.com	1) Find out how to validate MLP bitstream 2) Update ​experimental MLP encoder		3.3.2015
VDPAU filter	Carl Eugen Hoyos	Himangi Saraogi		himangi774 at gmail	Write a very simple filter that reverses the effects of the telecine filter.		5.3.2015		10.3.2015
AAC Encoder Improvements	Claudio Freire	Rostislav Pehlivanov	atomnuker	​atomnuker@gmail.com	Proof-of-concept PNS. Simplest strategy possible (replace zeroes by noise) and implement bitstream syntax.		2015-03-18
Animated Portable Network Graphics (APNG)	Paul B Mahol	Supraja Meedinti	myra	​supraja0493@gmail.com	Write a basic apng encoder that uses APNG_BLEND_OP_SOURCE and offset_x/y=0 which produces valid apng file which can be displayed correctly		5.3.2015
Animated Portable Network Graphics (APNG)	Paul B Mahol	Liosha Dolgavin	-	​dolgavin.alexey@gmail.com	Find bugs in current APNG implementation and fix them		4.3.2015
Animated Portable Network Graphics (APNG)	Paul B Mahol	Rahul Raturi	rhlrtr4	​rhlrtr44@gmail.com	Implement support for tiled images in libavcodec's exr decoder		5.3.2015
Animated Portable Network Graphics (APNG)	Paul B Mahol	greeshma	greeshma	​greeshmabalabadra@gmail.com	Implement one missing compression method in exr codec		6.3.2015		16.3.2015
MPEG-4 ALS encoder	Thilo Borgmann	Krishna Gandhi		gandhikrishna81 at gmail.com	Implement floating-point decoding for ALS.		5.3.2015
MPEG-4 ALS encoder	Thilo Borgmann	Protim Roy		protim at mail.uoguelph.ca	Implement RLS-LMS decoding for ALS.		12.3.2015
FFv1 P frame support	Michael Niedermayer	Fred Fernandez	fredf	​ffernandez9@gatech.edu	Implement support for simple P frames without motion compensation in FFv1.		7.3.2015
FFv1 P frame support	Michael Niedermayer	Yingming Fan	yingming	​yingmingfan@gmail.com	Improve the compression of the existing FFV1 Intra frames		14.3.2015
FFv1 P frame support	Michael Niedermayer	Weilun Feng	lunning	​lunning1992@gmail.com	Add support for the 16bit bayer formats to ffv1		25.3.2015
Basic servers for network protocols	Nicolas George	Stephan Holljes	klaxa	klaxa1337 at googlemail	Proof of concept HTTP server		2015-03-08
HTTP/2	Nicolas George	Anand Dhoot		ananddhoot at gmail	make HTTP/1 code input-driven and non-blocking		2015-03-10
HTTP/2	Nicolas George	Akshay Gupta		akshaysngupta at gmail	Websocket protocol		2015-03-12
VDPAU wrappper	Reimar Doeffinger	Shiv Raj	prish4	drashiv gmail	Write a libvdpau wrapper library that logs the function calls and data		2015-03-09
Postproc Optimizations	Michael Niedermayer	Tucker DiNapoli	tuckerD	t.dinapoli42 at gmail.com	Convert some existing MMX2 functions to use SSE2 and AVX2		4.3.2015		11.3.2015
Postproc Optimizations	Michael Niedermayer	Zhenan Lin		​zhenanlin@gmail.com	Convert some existing MMX2 functions to use SSE2 and AVX2		20.3.2015
directshow digital video capture	Roger Pack	Ilinca Andrei	andrei_il / andreiil	​andrei.ilinca24@gmail.com	Build some basic directshow graphs, add an IPersistStream option		8.3.2015
TrueHD encoder	Ramiro Polla	Siddharth Kumar		​siddharthkumar2895@gmail.com	1) Find out how to validate MLP bitstream 2) Update ​experimental MLP encoder		11.3.2015
Improve movtext support	Philip Langdale	Kapil Singh		​kpsingh201091@gmail.com	Implement encoding and decoding for Bold/Italic/Underlined formatting		5.3.2015	Not Started. Abandoned?
Improve movtext support	Philip Langdale	Wesley Castro		​root670@gmail.com	Implement encoding and decoding for Bold/Italic/Underlined formatting		12.3.2015	Pulled out	17.3.2015
Improve movtext support	Philip Langdale	Niklesh Lalwani		​lalwani1994@gmail.com	Implement encoding and decoding for Bold/Italic/Underlined formatting (Also, fixing ticket 2622)		22.3.2015	Continuing Wesley's work
Browsing content on the server	Lukasz Marek	Mariusz Szczepanczyk		​mszczepanczyk@gmail.com	Implement browsing routine for one of the protocols		19.3.2015		19.3.2015
FFv1 P frame support	Michael Niedermayer	Wenyu Lei	leiwenyu	​leiwenyu9267@gmail.com	Implement PAL8 support in ffv1.Optimize the order of the 256 color entries in the palette

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