FFmpeg is the premiere open source multimedia backend library. Most open source -- and closed source -- multimedia programs depend of FFmpeg to interpret hundreds of common and exotic multimedia formats and to decode or transcode the files.

• Are you proficient in coding C (not C++, C# or Objective-C; just plain C)?

• Can you come up to speed quickly with the FFmpeg codebase?

• Can you submit patches, accept constructively critical feedback, and revise patches until they meet quality standards?

• Are you willing to prove all of these things with a qualification task chosen from this page? http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=Small_FFmpeg_Tasks

(All of the above are requirements.)