I am interesting to do this project. I am a student of computer science & engineering. Nowadays I am working with theora codec to optimize the theora codec for narrow bandwidth conferencing. According to Saul's and <span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Ivo Emanuel Gonçalve's reply, this is an interesting project and it is very useful.</span><br>
</span>According to the Saul's reply, this can be done. (But I never worked with the code of GIMP).<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 9:40 PM, Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves <<a href="mailto:justivo@gmail.com">justivo@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Thanks to Saul for a great response.<br>
<br>
I was the one who added that project idea. Some back story:<br>
<br>
Last year, I used GIMP for a job and found a video encoding option. I<br>
was pretty disappointed that one of the big free software projects<br>
considered it more important to support non-free video than our<br>
Theora.<br>
<br>
I asked around in the GIMP IRC channel, and the response was "we don't<br>
care about Theora. no one uses it. if you'd like to provide a patch,<br>
we may accept it"[1]. Of course I don't know enough about GIMP and<br>
the GAP component to do it myself, so I have been looking for a<br>
programmer willing to do it. With no success.<br>
<br>
I threw in the idea in the proposed projects for GSoC to see if any<br>
student would like to take over it, and I'm glad to finally see<br>
interest.<br>
<br>
Saul is clearly the one who can tell if this is feasable, but my idea<br>
was to build a wrapper around png2theora. So, I guess GIMP would<br>
export all data to PNG first and then pass it through png2theora and<br>
get a video file.<br>
<br>
-Ivo<br>
<br>
[1] actually their response was more rude than this.<br>
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