(Fwd) RE: RE: C++ developers needed for MCF

Gentlemen,

i am happy and pleased to be able to introduce a new development team member to 
you all.

raghav is from India and working for Tektronix there. His skills include C, C++ and 
also some java. He was recently looking deeper into media programming by working 
with realmedia files and streaming server ( Helix ? ), and caught fire on the 
opensource idea. I met him on the mplayer mailing list and contacted him if he 
wanted to contribute to MCF and/or UCI, and fortunately he liked the idea of creating 
an open standard format.

raghav is currently making his way through all the old posts on the mailing lists and 
on the forums to be up-to-date, and then will make a decision how he thinks he could 
contribute to the project ( see to-do-list below ).

I would like you all to welcome him in the team and hope we will all have a great time 
together, working hard to establish MCF as the open standard for audio and video.

Best regards

Christian

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From:           	[email protected]
To:             	[email protected]
Subject:        	RE: RE: C++ developers needed for MCF
Date sent:      	Wed, 23 Oct 2002 02:59:41 -0700

Hi Christian,
	Thank you very much for Introducing the Team. I am indebted to you
for all this.
I had subscribed to all the lists on mcf, but i had given my sf account for
the mail-id. I shall change that to receive the mails here. 

Your views are correct about getting familiar with the project and then
starting on a task...
i should get a little familiarity with the various things happening in our
projects
so that i can take up something...all the tasks in the TO-DO list look
really interesting...is it ok that
i shall let u know about it in a day or two? 
	
Thank you for everything and please keep the enthusiasm going,
have a good day,
raghav.
	

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 3:00 PM
To: Raghavendran, N
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: RE: RE: C++ developers needed for MCF


to : raghav
cc: robux4


On 22 Oct 2002 at 9:19, [email protected] wrote:
> Hi Christian,
> 	Thanks to your mail, i am now a registered user on sf :)
> i am happy as i understand the oft used terms now...my id is
> raghavnskb.

raghav, i added you to the developers list of MCF on sourceforge.net ; if
you login to 
sourceforge.net  MCF should pop up as one your registered projects now. Note
that 
this does not mean any kind of duty for you, it is just to allow you to
access the CVS 
trees, means to upload or load code from CVS.

With your allowance i would like to introduce you to the rest of the team
now, so they 
are aware of your interest in participation.


> about reading the news on gmane, i have a problem
> with the outlook client that i am using...it times out and says
> that the server is inaccessible at port 119, but i am able to access
> USENET groups...

I heard from some people that the news://news.gmane.org server is not very
well 
mirrored around the world and thus hard to access for some people. I am
sorry to 
hear about your problems accessing it, in case you cant solve this there is
always the 
chance to subscribe to the mailing list normally ( using email ; see 
sf.net/projects/mcf/ , 'mailing list'  ) , and browse through the archives
using internet 
browser on www.gmane.org . 


> Another good thing is that i started to know about MCF,
> UCI too (i need to keep revisiting as this was my first read)...
> i shall try to resolve the problem with reading the news from gmane...
> or i should do it from home...
> thank you once again for all the patience and the help...
> shall catch up with you soon,
> raghav.

You are more than welcome to the team raghav. Once you have read your way 
trough the purpose of the project and the specs i am pretty sure we could
find an 
interesting task for you that you could take over.

The 'active' development team is currently :

Chief engineer : Steve L'Homme ( robux4 ) ; specs creation and documentation
; 
Steve is currently fighting with DocBook to document the MCF specs so we can

output them in HTML, XHTML, PDF, etc. ; libmcf developer

Jan Schlenker ( myFUN, kromyx ) : he is developing the MCF parser and muxer
for 
DirectShow ; first working alphas are on www.wiesneronline.net/mcf/ ,
together with 
some first test files ( MP3 ) ; note that files are made with old libmcf, so
they are not 
spec compliant with latest specs, this is just for testing the basic framing

Lasse Karkainen ( Tronic ) ; founder of MCF, coded mcflib in C ( outdated ),
currently 
busy with school

John Cannon ( spyder482, 555 ) : he is coding MCF4Java , the java port for
MCF 
files

Jon Hickman ( milkman.dan ) : he is developing  -gemma , a MCF editing and 
authoring tool ( menue creation, chapters, etc. )

Developers involved with MCF :

Alex Stewart ( Foogod ), UCI developer ; Alban Bedel ( albeu ), mplayer
developer ; 
Ingo Ralf Blum ( ingo ), general MCF consultant )



The MCF to-do-list :

1. Finish and freeze MCF-1 specs, put them in a DocBook format for easy 
distribution : robux4 ; ETA : 4 weeks

2. Update libmcf with latest specs : robux4 ; ETA : 8 weeks

3. Finish Dshow parser and start with creating Dshow muxer, also
implementing UCI 
interface for calling UCI based en/decoders ; myFUN : 12 weeks

4. Overwork Virtualdub for Windows ( www.virtualdub.org ) to allow MCF file
creation 
and codec interfacing via UCI, not VfW : no developer assigned yet ; ETA :
??

5. Develop a general use UCI to VfW wrapper, so all VfW codecs can be used
with 
MCF : no developer assigned yet ; ETA : ??

6. Create UCI wrappers for most used closed source codecs, like DivX 5,
maybe not 
by accessing/wrapping the VfW API interface, but the more powerful (
documented ) 
MP4 API : no developer assigend yet ; ETA : ??

7. Add UCI interfaces to most of the open source codecs, like FAAD ( AAC ),
Lame 
MP3, Vorbis ( www.xiph.org ), MPC, XviD( www.xvid.org ) : no developer
assigned 
yet ; ETA : ??


If anything on this list catches your interest, please tell me. Of course,
it seems 
adding UCI interfaces to many codecs was the biggest task at all, and its a
vital thing 
for MCF, deciding about the future of the whole project. For more details on
UCI goto 
www.sf.net/projects/uci .

Looking forward to hearing from you soon.

Best regards


Christian
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