OPW 2014-12 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
Animated Portable Network Graphics (APNG)	Paul B Mahol	Mansi Gokhale	Mansi
FFv1 P frame support
Subtitles	Clement Boesch	Eejya Singh	akira4
		Hima Dangi	hima	​hima.dangi565@gmail.com	Demuxer for kate format
Postproc optimizations	Michael Niedermayer	Nadia Heredia	nadiah
MPEG-4 Audio Lossless Coding (ALS) encoder	Thilo Borgmann	Juliet Fru		​julietfru@gmail.com	Implement floating-point decoding	1		preparation phase
	Thilo Borgmann	Ngassa Finjap	amalia	​ngassafinjap@gmail.com	Implement RLS-LMS decoding	1		preparation phase
Hardware Acceleration API Software / Tracing Implementation
Missing AAC decoder features
AAC Encoder Improvements	Claudio Freire	Senjuti Kundu
DTS / DCA Improvements
MXF Demuxer Improvements
Symmetric-key block ciphers	Giorgio Vazzana	Supraja Reddy	myra	​supraja0493@gmail.com	CAST128 implementation	5	28 Sep 2014	patch review	12 Oct 2014
	Giorgio Vazzana		sphoorti		Cryptographic hash function
	Giorgio Vazzana	Nikita Mantri		​nikita.mantri21@gmail.com	AES-CMAC Algorithm	3	13 Oct 2014	preparation phase
VDPAU filter					See wiki:SponsoringPrograms/OPW/2014-12#VDPAUfilter
Basic servers for network protocols	Nicolas George	Ioana Pavelescu
TrueHD encoder	Ramiro Polla				Update ​experimental MLP encoder. Find out how to validate MLP bitstream.
Misc Libavfilter extension	Stefano Sabatini
Intially unmentored projects
VC-1 interlaced
JPEG 2000
Hardware Accelerated Video Encoding with VA-API	Reimar Döffinger	Rita Sinha	​rita.sinha89@gmail.com
H.264 Multiview Video Coding (MVC)
Browsing content on the server