GSoC and Outreachy 2016 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
Create a fuzzing testsuite for FFmpeg	Kieran Kunhya	Neeraj Singhi	neeraj	​nsinghi2011@gmail.com ​h2015103033@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in	Compile and run ​fffuzz and report and (possibly fix) a crash using zzuf or afl-fuzz.		2016-03-22
Create a fuzzing testsuite for FFmpeg	Kieran Kunhya	Paweł Goliński	qiubit	​golpaw1@gmail.com	Compile and run ​fffuzz and report and (possibly fix) a crash using zzuf or afl-fuzz.		2016-03-08
FFv1 P frame support	Michael Niedermayer	Vladyslav Grynko	scaredcookie	​vladyslav.grynko@gmail.com	Implement support for simple P frames without motion compensation in FFv1. That is so that each frame stores the difference to the previous frame.		2016-03-01
FFv1 P frame support	Michael Niedermayer	Yash Patel	yash0307	​yashdbest01@gmail.com	Improve the compression of the existing FFV1 Intra frames, you can change any part of the algorithm but it must be practical, the more improvement you can achieve, the better		2016-03-04	No proposal sent
MPEG-4 Audio Lossless Coding (ALS) encoder	Thilo Borgmann	Umair Khan	omerjerk	​omerjerk@gmail.com	Work on bugs and missing features of the ALS decoder		2016-03-04
Hardware Acceleration API Software / Tracing Implementation	Reimar Doeffinger	Prakhar Pratyush	pnation2020	​pnation2020@gmail.com	Anything related to the hardware acceleration code, though producing first ideas and code pieces for this task would also be reasonable		2016-03-02	No proposal sent
MXF Demuxer Improvements	Tomas Haerdin	Xiao Hu Zhang	xhzhang	​xh3zhang@gmail.com	Investigate if there may be a compact way of representing the UL -> WrappingKind mapping specified in the ​official RP224 Excel document.		2016-03-17
VDPAU filter	Carl Eugen Hoyos	Benjamin St	benjaminst123	benjaminst123 AT gmail.com	Find the bug using one of the options of the detelecine filter and fix it. Once this is done, find a very simple filter that is missing from FFmpeg and implement it or port an existing filter from another application. Don't forget to tell us on which filter you are working!		2016-03-07
TrueHD encoder	Rostislav Pehlivanov	Jai Luthra	darkapex	​me@jailuthra.in	Update the MLP encoder so that it produces a valid bitstream that can be decoded by FFmpeg without errors to silence. Find out how to validate the generated bitstream besides using FFmpeg.		2016-02-26		2016-04-10	2016-04-10
TrueHD encoder	Rostislav Pehlivanov	Disha Singh	dinux5	directionstar86 AT gmail.com	Update the MLP encoder so that it produces a valid bitstream that can be decoded by FFmpeg without errors to silence. Find out how to validate the generated bitstream besides using FFmpeg.		2016-03-07
Improve Selftest coverage	Michael Niedermayer	Petru Rares	petru	​psincraian@gmail.com	Improve selftest code coverage by at least 1% of two of the main libraries (libavcodec, libavformat, libavdevice, libavfilter, libavutil, libswresample, libswscale) as listed at ​coverage.ffmpeg.org.		2016-03-15
Improve and Cleanup Swscale	Michael Niedermayer	Calofir Ionut	ICalofir	​ionut.calofir@gmail.com	Something that proofs that you understand the existing code and can manipulate it as you need to. A specific possibility would be to move some cases which are handled as cascaded contexts to run as part of the filters from ff_init_filters() wthout using cascaded contexts.		2016-03-06	No proposal sent
Motion interpolation in libavfilter	Paul B Mahol	Niklesh Lalwani	niklesh_l	​lalwani1994@gmail.com	Basic but working motion estimation filter.		2016-03-07	No proposal sent
DICOM support	Carl Eugen Hoyos	Patryk Balicki	burnrice	pbalicki.ib AT gmail.com	Write a simple demuxer for a format currently unsupported by FFmpeg. I am currently working on ticket #3720		2016-03-14	No proposal sent
Improve the tee muxer	Marton Balint	Jan Sebechlebsky	jsebechlebsky	​sebechlebskyjan@gmail.com	Add a per-output option to the tee muxer which allows an output to fail		2016-03-12		2016-03-21
FFv1 P frame support	Michael Niedermayer	Stanislav Dolganov	theacetoace	​stanislav.dolganov@gmail.com	Implement support for simple P frames without motion compensation in FFv1. That is so that each frame stores the difference to the previous frame.		2016-03-14			2016-04-09
FFv1 P frame support	Michael Niedermayer	Francesco Di Brino	Dibri	​francesco.dibrino@gmail.com	Add support for bayer pixel formats to FFV1, update the context model and predictor to work well with bayer formats, and provide some evidence that shows that your choice for how bayer would be handled is good.		2016-03-25
Motion interpolation in libavfilter	Paul B Mahol	Davinder Singh	DSM_	​ds.mudhar@gmail.com	Basic but working motion estimation filter.		2016-03-10			2016-04-10