Skills required

• Knowledge of C
• Knowledge of Factor's FFI
• Factor API design skills

Level

Beginner

Technical outline

Factor already has various multimedia libraries, in various states of disrepair:

• ogg.vorbis - binding
• ogg.theora - binding
• ogg.player - Ogg video and audio player
• mod - a libmod binding
• id3 - ID3 parser in pure Factor
• openal - 3D audio binding

These need to be cleaned up. Additional libraries and bindings, for example to libraries such as GStreamer, should be written too. The end goal would be a high-level idiomatic Factor API for embedding audio and video in GUI applications.

Benefit to the student

The student learns how to bind C libraries to Factor using Factor's FFI, and also learns how C multimedia libraries work.

Benefit to the community

Factor will be suitable for multimedia applications if this project is completed.