GSoC 2011 Idea

[Trever Fischer]

On Wednesday, March 30, 2011 08:22:34 PM Pavel Punegov wrote:
> Hello everyone!
> 
> My name is Pavel, I am a student in Russia and I would like to implement an
> idea of Phonon encoding during the GSoC. I have some experience in C++ and
> Qt, and want to learn multimedia libs such as libvlc and GStreamer.
Howdy.
> 
> I think this is an interesting project and it's very necessary for Phonon
> because encoding feature makes Phonon more attractive for Qt users.
> 
> I think I should make an interface for encoding and its implementations on
> each backend (i think it's only vlc and gstreamer). It will be a new
> MediaNode which provide user with encoding capabilities and some basic
> encoding settings. I think it should give a list of possible formats and
> conversions of stream so user could chose required one. Then stream
> returns to user as QIODevice or QFile.
Any idea how you might implement this? A quick UML diagram or even example API 
consumer code would be great.
> 
> Have you any ideas? I think it's necessary to discuss it.
Returning the output to a user as a QFile doesn't make much sense imho, since 
you're reading data out of the pipeline, which isn't a file at all. Other than 
that, we'd like to see some idea of how it might get implemented.

Encoding is a brilliant idea and sorely needed for wider acceptance of the 
video capture APIs. As of now, you can capture video from a webcam, but unless 
you want to write your own encoding system, saving the video as a raw yuv 
stream is messy.
> 
> Best regards, Pavel
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