Greetings all.. From what I've been able to determine this is the current list for work on the VP3 codec, so I figured folks here might be interested in this project (we'd love to have input from anybody interested in working with us). If this is not the case (or this is not an appropriate forum for this sort of thing) I apologize in advance.. <p> Project Announcement and Call for Participation ----------------------------------------------- The Universal Codec Interface (UCI) Project is aiming to create a consistent, well-designed, portable set of programming interfaces for multimedia applications and codecs to interface to one another on unix-like (and potentially other) operating systems. The UCI system is intended to provide an interface which is both consistent enough to allow easy ("plug and play") use of any codec by any application, while being flexible enough to allow sophisticated use of specialized codec features by applications designed to take more thorough advantage of certain codec implementations, or even to allow the user to control codec features of which the application itself may not be directly aware. It is not tied to any particular system or set of other libraries (such as graphical environments), and is intended to be lightweight and as efficient as possible so as not to get in the way of application/codec builders. We are interested in developing an interface which is well thought-out and meets all the needs of multimedia applications and codecs, both now and in the future. To this end, we are inviting (and encouraging) participation by any and all current multimedia developers or other interested parties, to provide input and feedback on developing UCI specifications, suggest features, contribute code, or simply keep up to date on the current state of the project. UCI is an Open-Source, Open-Spec, Peer-Directed project. Choice of licenses and related issues are still somewhat under discussion. Contributions and feedback in this area are welcome, as well. Everyone and anyone interested in contributing, knowledge, skills, critical thinking, or anything else that might be useful to this project is welcome! It is our hope that through the participation of a range of contributors from various backgrounds, we will build a system which is useful and effective for everyone's needs, and will significantly simplify the development of both platform-specific (linux, etc) and cross-platform multimedia software now and in the future. Those interested in the UCI project should visit the project web page at: http://uci.sourceforge.net/ A public UCI-Devel maillist is open to participation by everyone. To subscribe, point a web browser at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/uci-devel ..or simply send a subscription request to: uci-devel-request@lists.sourceforge.net We also have an NNTP gateway, web archives, and an IRC channel on FreeNode for discussing UCI development. More details can be found on the main project page. Some basic specifications and documentation as to the current direction of UCI development are available from the main project page. Please note that these "specifications" are preliminary and subject to change based on feedback from the larger multimedia community. If you see something that looks wrong, please feel free to contribute suggestions to the UCI-Devel maillist. Thank you all for your kind consideration, -alex --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'theora-dev-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.