Re: Re: hdot264 - Developer

	Hi,

On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 20:08, Aitor Garay wrote: 
>     I will be very glad if Gopal or someone else enters the projects and collaborates.  In
> the last months the project has not been active at all. As Char said, most of use are very
> busy with out works to attend the project.  I know from the H.264/AVC expert group
> mailing list that people as Skal are at least reading the standard or looking at the reference
> software in detail.

	indeed, i'm playing with ref software in order to get a grasp of
	H264 capabilities. And i must admit H264 is by far more complex
	than i first thought. And i doubt any real-time decoding can be
	achieved before long, so that's a little depressing... Maybe
	it's time for me to go on summer vacations :)


	bye
		Skal



>     Much of us are also working commercially in video coding or H.264/AVC related
> projects, so is even more difficult/problematic to contribute to the project.  In the last
> months i have rewrite completely the openhdot264 codec.  The problem is that this code
> was developed during a H.264/AVC related project in the company i work to.  It has
> some nice new features and the company is not willing to release them to the public
> domain.
>     I entered this project because i wanted (and i still want) to learn much more about
> H.264/AVC, and i still strongly believe that the best way for this is working in a open
> source project.  I'm sad of not being able to release my contributions or even collaborate,
> but that's how things are now.
>     I would be too very glad to hear the opinions of the people about the future of this
> project, specially of those working commercially on related projects...
> 
>     /AITOR




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