Hello All, After reading quite a number of applications posted and in order to add some diversity here, I decided to actually post a *recommendation* here :)
I hope that Mans Rullgard can be considered for inclusion into the list of the developers eligible for getting discount code. He is a maintainer of many parts of ffmpeg and is quite an active contributor (see MAINTAINERS file [1] from ffmpeg distribution and ffmpeg SVN changelog [2], he is mentioned as "mru" there). But more importantly, he has already contributed to maemo by implementing ARMv5TE optimized idct code [3], which improves performance of MPlayer and most likely also built-in player (ffdec_mpegvideo element from Nokia 770 gstreamer stack). The part "Local playback of MPEG video improved" from the second OS2006 release notes [4] probably mentions this particular improvement. I'm just worried that he could get out of the sight of those who are responsible for selection of eligible developers for this program. Having some core ffmpeg developers (or at least one of them) as developer device program participants can have a very positive effect on multimedia support capabilities of Nokia 770/800 or any future maemo devices (both in performance and in the number of properly supported codecs and video formats). And N800 device is interesting for video decoding optimizations as it supports ARMv6 SIMD instructions, so it got some potential here. [1] http://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk/MAINTAINERS?view=markup [2] http://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk/?view=log [3] http://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk/libavcodec/armv4l/simple_idct_armv5te.S [4] http://europe.nokia.com/link?cid=PLAIN_TEXT_48892 _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
