[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Google Summer of Code 2009

[C.M.Brown]

Hi Jamie,

As a side note - I'd be very interested to see a Haskell implementation of
H264 decoding. I'm currently having to use the ffmpeg library in C, and
it's notoriously buggy with memory leaks left right and centre. A
haskell solution would be very much welcome!

Regards,
Chris.


On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, Jamie wrote:

> Hi Bulat,
>
> On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
>
> > Hello Jamie,
> >
> > Wednesday, February 11, 2009, 5:54:09 AM, you wrote:
> >
> >> Seems like it is ok to write H.264 in Haskell and released via GPL
> >> license?
> >
> > anyway it's impossible due to slow code generated by ghc
>
> I see, I guess I'll have to stuck with C version of H.264 in my Haskell
> programs.  Maybe in future when ghc have better optimizations.
>
> At least one can write various subset of H.323 standard in Haskell as the
> only part of H.323 subset that is CPU intensive is video/audio codecs, the
> rest is just mainly network I/O code.  http://www.h323plus.org/standards/
>
> > Best regards,
> > Bulat                            mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin at gmail.com
>
>  	Jamie
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