Re: project extension proposal

On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Aitor Garay wrote:
> > I doubt that many people will be as altruistic, to create a new
> > version that runs even slower than the present one. 
> > Much more people will be interested to help create a _faster_
> > and therefore _usable_ version.
> 
>     Your are again rigth, but may be so much complexity in the
> reference software will make people think twice before trying to hack
> into it.  Someone with great insight of it should start with a deep
> cleaning and refactoring to make it more amenable to general hacking.

Yes. But who? 
In theory, ITU or the MPEG consortium or whoever is responsible for
H.264 at the moment should create a "good" and "readable" and
"usable" reference implementation. I don't have the impression they will
create one. 

I doubt that any other company would pay anyone to do this. At least not
publically. 

If we talk about non-profit work, I could only think of an individual who
_really_ believes in this and takes the time and does it himself. Maybe he
call _sell_ it to ITU/whoever afterwards. :-) Who knows... 

I can't really see this as a "community driven" Open Source project. 
I doesn't sound like it would work. But of course it would be great if
someone proved me wrong! 

Christoph

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