Thank You

[jim_at_interval]

Hello everyone

I am writing to express my sincere gratitude for not only the dcp-o-matic suite of software, but also to those who have contributed to the forum. A couple of days ago I created my first DCP for my feature and took it to a local cinema to test it. Everything was perfect. The software was robust, the forum posts informative.

I have a question, too. If I wanted to repay the project by doing some development, where should I begin? I have around 30 years experience in software engineering; from architecture and design, through to hacking code. I'd be prepared to chip in if someone pointed me in the right direction.

All the best

Jim

[rlsound]

Best a question for Carl to answer, but I'd really like to see GPU encoding come to dcpomatic. The cost of building a machine to do serious encoding would come way down if GPU power was able to do the heavy lifting. Could be wrong but I think Wraptor does this already.

[carl]

Hi Jim,

I'm glad it worked for you, and I echo your thanks to everybody who contributes to the forum!

Contributions to development would be very welcome. There's a few ways you could join in:

• Pick a bug or feature request from the bug tracker and work on it. The bugs/features marked with priority "immediate" are the ones I'm hoping to include in the next "stable" release, 2.16.0.
• Work on something that "scratches an itch" that you found when using the software!
• Work on something "bigger": as an example, if you are experienced with JPEG2000 and/or CUDA/Metal/OpenCL a long-standing wish is for some GPU-acceleration of decoding/encoding. You don't have to start from scratch with this, as a fair amount of work has already been done - get in touch if you are interested and I will go through it!

If you have queries about anything development related I am always happy to receive emails on carl@dcpomatic.com.

[carl]

Best a question for Carl to answer, but I'd really like to see GPU encoding come to dcpomatic. The cost of building a machine to do serious encoding would come way down if GPU power was able to do the heavy lifting. Could be wrong but I think Wraptor does this already.

All being well there will be a paid-for option to allow this before too long (using some closed-source libraries). An open-source solution would be even better, though!

[rlsound]

That's great news!

[jim_at_interval]

Thank you all.

I'll start by squashing a few bugs. It's been a while and that's a good place to start. Right back where I started the software career - fixing bugs for Philips telephone systems. It won't be long, hopefully, before I can start adding something else.

All the best

Jim

[Carsten]

Haha, maybe I can attack you with some suggestions that Carl, ehm,... so far wasn't too keen to pick up...
(Probably because they were too simple for him to even consider them)

finger exercises so to say...

- Carsten

[carl]

Too many bugs, not enough time!