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= Mentor = [[Doug Coleman]] = Skills required = - Knowledge of C - Knowledge of Factor's FFI - Factor API design skills = Level = Beginner = Existing work = Factor already has various multimedia libraries, in various states of disrepair: - %ogg.vorbis% - binding - %ogg.theora% - binding - %ogg.player% - Ogg video and audio player - %mod% - a libmod binding - %id3% - ID3 parser in pure Factor - %openal% - 3D audio binding These need to be cleaned up. Additional libraries and bindings, for example to libraries such as %GStreamer%, should be written too. The end goal would be a high-level idiomatic Factor API for embedding audio and video in GUI applications. = Technical details = Factor's C FFI (foreign function interface) is capable of calling out to the entirety of C libraries, including callbacks and various calling conventions, like cdecl and stdcall. Therefore, all of the libraries can be bound to and called from inside Factor. = Benefit to the student = The student learns how to bind C libraries to Factor using Factor's FFI, and also learns how C multimedia libraries work. = Benefit to the community = Factor will be suitable for multimedia applications if this project is completed. = Challenges = - Learning the APIs of various libraries
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