Time: Wednesday 17.12.2008 at 12:07 - 2:21 PM
Place: AgC223.1, project meeting space

Present:

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

    * Matthieu Weber
 
    * Ville Isomöttönen 

Minutes

1. Opening
    
    Chairman Richard Domander opened the meeting at 12:07 PM. Presence of quorum was confirmed.

2. Approval of Agenda
    
    Decisions

    * Agenda was approved without modifications.

3. Approval of the Minutes of the Previous Meeting

    Richard went through the main points of the minutes. He asked if the minutes should include the time of his arrival to the previous meeting more accurately. It was agreed that the accurate time is not necessary.

    Ville suggested that decisions should be listed the same way as in previous minutes. He also noted that item 5 should have a decision about approving the application report with modifications listed in an inspection report.

    State of the tasks listed in previous minutes
    * The team had tried to solve the bugs. More details about this at item 4
    * The project report was submitted in time
    * Trac tickets were up-to-date   

    Decisions

    * The minutes were approved with the following modifications:
         o Decisions listed at the end of each item having any
         o Decision about approval of the application plan at item 5

4. Progress since previous meeting

    Richard presented the bug list and told about the state of each bug. He had fixed the noise problem caused by scaling in subtitles. Subtitle delay was still a mystery. Richard had figured out that his fix for the "flashing subtitles" problem had not caused it. Teemu and Tommi discussed about possible causes of the seek function detecting false PTS resets.

    Tuomas told about the state of the project report and presented time usage charts for iteration 5. Ville asked if Tuomas could show the summary of the total time usage of the project. Tuomas noted that the hours for iteration 6 were evaluated. Ville reminded him about keeping accurate time log until the end of the project.

    Tuomas also presented different charts about division of hours between tasks and team members. They showed that researching the code was the most time-consuming individual task during the project. This didn't surprise Matthieu.

5. Reviewing bug list and deciding final requirements

    Since the bug list was reviewed at the previous item, it was only glanced at. Richard wondered about adding the problem of flashing subtitles to the list. He suspected that it is related to the general subtitle delay.

    Decisions

    The following are the final software-related requirements for the project:
   
    Features   
        * DVB subtitle support
        * Black frame detection filter
        * MPEG TS seek
        * Filtering for compressing and normalizing audio volume
   
    Other requirements
        * Sending patches to MPlayer community
        * Fixing the remaining bugs
        * Documenting any bugs that cannot be fixed during the project and pointing out essential parts of the code related to these bugs

6. Inspection of the project report

    Tuomas took the lead of the inspection, since he was the main author of the document.

    Decisions

    * The project report was approved with corrections listed in inspection report

7. Tasks for iteration 6  

    Tasks

    * Team
         o Fixing the remaining bugs and getting approval for the features from the client
         o Writing a summary of testing

8. Weekly tasks

    Tasks

    * Team
          o Sending a new patch and a situation review to the mailing list by the end of the week (51)
          o Making corrections to the project report
          o Making corrections to the application report

9. Miscellaneous topics

    Ville promised that the Department of Mathematical Information Technology will offer a lunch for the participants of the project at Piato. It was agreed that this will take place after Christmas.

    Matthieu told he had admired the quality of commercial skipping in the final presentation of the project a day before. Teemu explained that the scene was particularly selected for demostrative purposes, and it does not fully represent the quality of the feature.

10. Decision of the time and place for the next meeting

    The next unofficial meeting will be held on Friday, 9.1.2009 at 12:00 PM.
    The time of the next official meeting will be decided later.

11. Closing

   Chairman Richard Domander closed the meeting at 2:21 PM