[XviD-devel] new developers

[Christoph Lampert]

On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, peter ross wrote:

> hello,
> 
> one of my flatmates is a bit borred and wants to contibute to xvid.
> are there any 'easy' tasks/jobs we can give him?
> 
> he's a computer science student; basic c/c++ skills and pretty good
> with java.


Documentation ;-)


No, honestly "easy" tasks are hard to find... what we _could_ use is to 
automatise some every day testing stuff: 

1) Make xvid_stat.c and xvid_bstat.c into a standard testing environment
   (e.g. compatible on all plattforms). 

2) Create standard benchmarks/scripts, e.g. from MPEG sequencens and/or 
   tools to analyse output. 

3) Enhance visualiuation of output (is motion vector visualization
   perfect? Inter/Intra/Skip blocks? Same for B-frames?

An very old goal of mine: 

4) Modify the decoder to only print the contents of given output fields
   instead of real decoding  (MPEG-4 bitstream parser).

gruel