I am a heavy user of VLC media player, and I was a bit disappointed to find out that VLC is unable to utilize my NVIDIA card to its fullest for hardware accelerated video decoding. VLC supports hwaccel on NVIDIA cards through VDPAU,...

The Discrete Fourier Transform, takes in a sequence of N complex numbers \(x_0, x_1, \dots, x_{N-1}\) and converts them to another sequence, let’s say \(X_0, X_1, \dots, X_{N-1}\). Inverse-DFT or IDFT, as the name implies, reverses the...

Patches sent on the ffmpeg-devel mailing list for review: [PATCH 1/2] lavc/lpc: Add min_shift parameter in LPC [PATCH 2/2] mlpenc: Working MLP/TrueHD encoder List of commits during GSoC period:...

The work on the MLP bitstream verifier had to be paused for some time, as things with more priority popped up. Bug #1 The encoder was unable to produce a lossless bitstream at transients, which was not a good thing. To fix it I had to...