"Alexander Nicolaysen Sørnes" alex@thehandofagony.com wrote:
I really want to participate in Google's Summer of Code, but I realize I don't have much time left to find a suitable project. What I am thinking of is to improve Wine's capability of playing videos in games, first by fixing mciavi so it can play the Worms 2 intro films (bug 4256), and then hopefully progessing to fixing bugs in quartz/devenum, like crashes in Worms Armageddon or playback in WMP9. Is this too ambitious considering that I don't really have much experience with C and Wine? The closest I have gotten is some patches for Wine's WordPad implementation.
Very limited win32 programming experience might be a problem. If you intend to fix the problems with AVI file playback you should be prepared to fix wide range of things: winmm, msvf32, mciavi32 and any codecs involved. If you plan to look at the WMP9 playback problems that goes further to quartz.dll and OLE interfaces.