Hi, It will great if some light is thrown on this. Thanks, Prasanna Kumar On 13 April 2013 00:21, PrasannaKumar Muralidharan < prasannatsmkumar at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to participate in GSoC and contribute to pulseaudio project. > I have written a short intro about me and the idea that I have. > > About Me: > I am PrasannaKumar from India. I did my bachelors in Electronics and > Communication Engineering from College of Engineering, Guindy, working for > a semiconductor company as a software engineer. I am doing masters in > Applied Mathematics from IGNOU in part time. I would like to participate in > GSoC. I can spend around 20 hours per week. > > Project Idea: > I would like to work on the "Resampling Improvements" idea listed in the > Ideas page. > > To broaden the scope of that I have some ideas. I have listed them below > with some possible use case that I am aware of. > 1. Changing sample rate dynamically based on the streams that is being > played. > Consider a scenario where the sound card supports sampling rates x, > y, z. Lets say AppA plays at rate x. Then AppB starts to play at rate y. > AppA closes. In this scenario switching the sound card to sampling rate y > will make sure we don't resample the stream from AppB which could save a > lot of power and cpu usage. > > 2. Changing resampling method dynamically. > Ability to switch resampling method will help in reducing power > consumption when running in battery. e.g., Based on the power profile the > resampling method can be changed to consume less power with a compromise in > quality. Or when some other process requires more cpu pulseaudio can > squeeze out some cpu power for other applications. This is useful in case > of low end systems / embedded / mobile systems. > > > I am open for new ideas / improvements to the listed ideas if the above > mentioned ideas are not that useful / desired by the community. Please feel > free to let me know. > http://arunraghavan.net/2011/10/alternate-sample-rates/ says some sort of > dynamic sample rate switching is done, I am not aware of improvements that > were made to it now. So please let me know if the above ideas are already > implemented / existed. > > > Note: > 1. Discussed about my eligibility in GSoC mailing list and they said that > I can apply for GSoC. So there is no problem about my eligibility. > 2. I will be having semester exam in June 3rd week or 4th week. I will not > have any course work from July to September 1st or 2nd week. So basically I > am going to use that time for my GSoC work. Once my course work starts I > can do code-cleanup, bug fixes / documentation. > 3. Sorry for a lengthy mail. > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20130415/351f98b5/attachment.html>
