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FFmpeg

Record, convert and stream audio & video

FFmpeg is the leading multimedia framework, able to decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter and play pretty much anything that humans and machines have created. It supports the most obscure ancient formats up to the cutting edge. No matter if they were designed by some standards committee, the community or a corporation. It is also highly portable: FFmpeg compiles, runs, and passes our testing infrastructure FATE across Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft.

  • c
  • git
  • asm
  • audio
  • video
  • subtitles
  • multimedia

Project ideas

6 ideas on its 2026 ideas page; of the 5 that state a difficulty: 4 medium, 1 hard. Sizes: 3 medium, 2 large. 7 mentors named.

  1. WebRTC-HTTP Egress Protocol (WHEP) medium medium
  2. EIA-608 Closed Captions Modernization medium medium
  3. Modernizing LibTorch Backend: Async Infrastructure, Batching, and GPU Pipelines large hard
  4. Improving Fate (self tests) coverage large medium
  5. Improve WHIP(WebRTC-HTTP Ingest Protocol) Support medium medium
  6. Unmentored Qualification Tasks

Read the ideas page. Ideas are for scope reference; never copy one into a proposal.

History

In GSoC since 2016, 11 years. Projects per year: '16: 7, '17: 6, '18: 5, '19: 6, '20: 5, '21: 5, '22: 2, '23: 3, '24: 7, '25: 3, '26: 3.

On GitHub

No GitHub organization found in its official listing.

Links and channels

go deeper in your terminal
git-into-gsoc org "FFmpeg" --shortlist
git-into-gsoc repos "FFmpeg"
git-into-gsoc issues --org "FFmpeg"
or ask your assistant:
"Which FFmpeg repositories merge
newcomers' pull requests, and which beginner
issues are still free?"

Those commands read live data: which repositories merge outside pull requests, and which beginner issues nobody has claimed. Install in two minutes.