Some of the things I've been working on or will be soon...
I am mentoring 2 Google Summer of Code projects this year, an ALAC encoder and an MLP/TrueHD encoder.
Jai Menon will be creating the ALAC encoder. I'm very excited about the possibilities of this project. The format seems fairly straightforward, and Jai seems very bright and motivated, so I'm optimistic about him having time this summer for some good experimentation with the various encoding features.
Ramiro Polla will be making the MLP encoder. This seems like a bit more complex task, but I'm confident that Ramiro can complete it. This will be a wonderful addition to FFmpeg and will be very valuable for the open source community in general.
In addition to starting my mentoring, I'm also working on the E-AC3 decoder and on FLAC. E-AC3 is very close to being ready for FFmpeg SVN. The FLAC decoder just needs some work... It's acting as a demuxer, parser, and decoder all in one, with some not-so-fun side-effects. Now I just have to be persistent to get through Michael's tough reviews. :)
Maybe one of these days I'll get back to working on Aften and Flake... But FFmpeg definitely takes priority for now.
