The Schrödinger Project

GSoC 2008 Ideas

• JIT compiler for liboil. (See http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/wiki/LiboilJIT)
• Integrate Dirac picture decoding into PNG.
• Create a video rating website that allows us to get information from real viewers about relative video quality.
• Decoder written in Java

Both for testing and use a Java implementation of Dirac would be good. A good example to look at here would be the Cortado applet which includes a Java version of the Theora codec.

• Implementation of an automated test system.
• Improving Schro encoding algorithms: RDO tweaks, Open GOPs, CBR control dynamics
• GPU acceleration for encoder and decoder (Open GL)
• Implement Dirac support everywhere using Schrodinger (Quicktime, DirectShow, VLC, mplayer, Thoggen etc.)

Since Schrodinger ships with a set of GStreamer plugins we already have a family of applications using it. But for Dirac to quickly catch on we need support as widely as possible. An interested student could take Schrodinger and use it to provide patches for most major media systems and applications out there.

For more information on any of these ideas talk to David Schleef (ds) or Thomas Davies (tj_davies) on #dirac on irc.freenode.net