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gsoc-journeyvlc
Jun 30, 20264 min read
Week 2: NVDEC the easy way first
Before porting NVDEC to Vulkan, I got it playing zero-copy through OpenGL first, so I have a known-good reference to compare against. Then a long time reading my mentor's branch.
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gsoc-journeyvlc
Jun 20, 20263 min read
Week 1: first patch written
Week 1 of my GSoC with VideoLAN: a first patch that changes nothing on purpose, an assumption that fell apart once I read the source.
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gsoc-journeyvlc
Jun 12, 20265 min read
My GSoC 2026 Project Overview
Starting Google Summer of Code 2026 with VideoLAN, teaching VLC to draw GPU-decoded frames without copying them through the CPU first. The series opener: who I am and the round-trip I'm here to delete.
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