Time: Friday 17.10.2008 at 12:07 - 2:14 pm
Place: AgC223.1, project meeting space

Present:

    * Richard Domander, chairman
    * Tommi Teistelä, secretary
    * Teemu Nisu
    * Tuomas Mäenpää 

    * Matthieu Weber
    * Ville Isomöttönen 

Minutes

1. Opening and confirmation of the presence of quorum

    Chairman Richard Domander opened the meeting at 12:07 pm and the presence of quorum was confirmed.

2. Approval of agenda

    The agenda was approved with no changes.

3. Approval of the minutes of the previous meeting

    Richard went through the previous meeting's minutes. Ville noted the minutes did not cover the approval of the minutes from the meeting before that and they should do that from now on.

    Ville and Matthieu brought up the issue of maintaining a list of the project's requirements and backlog for them. They've been handled in Trac for now.

    The minutes were approved with some changes.

4. Progress since previous meeting

    Tuomas presented the planned and actual schedules from iteration 1.

    Teemu made a small presentation about EDL files and skipping commercials with them. He explained how the previous implementation would attempt to skip from the first black frame at the start of the commercial break to the last black frame at its end, and this could cause issues if there were any problems with seeking accuracy. He suggested the skip timestamps should instead point to the middle of the black frame sequences, as this would give the seeking some "room to operate", and, with accurate seeking, would make the transition seem smoother. It was decided this would be the best thing to do, if possible.

    MPlayer's tendency to not seek to keyframes in MPEG transport streams, causing some blocking artifacts until the next keyframe (I-frame), was also brought up. Matthieu didn't care about the issue and it was agreed attempting to correct it would be unnecessary.

    Tommi's work on the MPEG-TS seeking has already produced some results, although there are still a few cases in which it does not fulfill project requirements. Some additional tweaking should fix that.

    Richard and Teemu have mostly finished working on the BF/EDL code. Matthieu noted there were some things the old patch's code did not work with and suggested some testing with certain samples that caused problems with it.

    Richard presented the project's requirements list in Trac, which indicated the team was done with iteration 1.

    The colored subtitling mentioned in a previous meeting has proven complicated to implement due to dependency on the DVD subtitling code and it was agreed to be unnecessary.

5. Inspection of the project plan

    Tuomas presented the project plan one page at a time and it was approved with some changes, which will be listed in a separate document by the secretary and then implemented after approval by the project supervisor.
    (see the other document for details)

6. Deciding tasks for iteration 2

    The DVB subtitling feature previously scheduled for iteration 2 was discussed. Richard mentioned he'd already gotten the code to work quite well and corrected some questionable behavior in it, too.

    Finishing the work on the EDL+seeking code, which was already somewhat ahead of schedule, was accepted as a goal for this iteration. Teemu noted the previous code would act oddly if an attempt was made to seek past the end of a file and it was agreed it could be looked at.

    Tuomas's schedule for iteration 2 was approved.

7. Miscellaneous topics

    (no-one had anything to add here)

8. Decision of the time and place for next meeting

    The team decided to hold an unofficial meeting on Wednesday, 22.10. at 12:00 pm. The next official meeting will be held on Wednesday, 29.10. at 12:00 pm.

9. Closing

    Richard closed the meeting at 2:14 pm.