2 # Difficulty values: Easy, Medium, Hard, Guru
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4 # Urgency values: Wishlist, Normal, Important, Critical
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10 Description: World domination
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11 We need to dominate the world
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18 Description: pointers in int
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19 We have been very persistent in storing pointers in int's. We knew this was gonna hunt us one day.
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20 The time is near. See this forum <a href="http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?p=14378">post</a>.
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27 Description: RAR/ZIP/... access
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28 An access module that would be able to uncompress compressed files.
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35 Description: DVTS support
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36 DV over RTP support. See <a href="http://www.sfc.wide.ad.jp/DVTS/">DVTS homepage</a>
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43 Description: proper DVD controls
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44 Most importantly a proper button that will take you straight to the DVD menu. But also, next/prev chapter should be integrated with next/prev playlistitem.
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49 Platform: Linux, Win32, Mac OS X
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51 Description: Streaming wizard
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52 Finish the streaming wizard (85% finished)<br />
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53 The mac version is at 0%
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54 Status: Assigned to zorglub
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60 Description: configure overview of modules
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61 configure should report what it will and what it won't build, after it is done running.
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68 Description: WinCE port finalizing
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69 Sources need to be imported into the VLC source tree.
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70 Downloads should be added to the main vlc download page. We need an icon for this.
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71 Status: Assigned to MixerAnderson
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77 Description: Dual window in embed mode
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78 Windows taskbar reports two windows in the video embed mode.
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79 Status: Assigned to gibalou
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85 Description: External audio file playing
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86 Allow several access from an input thread to allow for multi-input<br />
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87 (90% done) Add GUI elements
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88 Status: Assigned to fenrir
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94 Description: make everything UTF-8 based
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95 Convert everything that deals with strings to a UTF-8 based system. Not very difficult, but needs a lot of checking, testing and allows for easy breakage.
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102 Description: Full blown OSD system
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103 In the line of freevo etc.
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110 Description: Rewrite the SAP parser
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111 The SAP parser is very dirty at the moment, and needs a complete rewrite.
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112 - caching support<br />
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113 Mostly finished. Closely tied to the new playlist system
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114 Status: Assigned to zorglub
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120 Description: Tree playlist
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121 A hierarchized playlist structure, eventually using a media library.
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122 Think playlist within playlist, directory structures, SAP section, TV channels list, iTunes library like stuff etc. <a href="http://sierra.via.ecp.fr/~zorglub/vlc/playlist.txt">Thoughts and ideas (not up-to-date)</a><br />
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123 Mostly finished. will be done after 0.8.0
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124 Status: Assigned to zorglub
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130 Description: fix ASX playlist parser
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131 Basically our asx parser is broken. It doesn't handle relative links. It should also URL encode the hrefs (spaces in the url need to be converted to %20 etc). protocol rollover, authors, title's etc etc aren't handled. See <a href="http://www.meetnewplayers.com/bend/Windows%20Media%20-%20Fun%20with%20asx%20files2.htm">this</a> for asx examples. It is still located in the old demux/m3u.c module instead of modules/demux/playlist/
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138 Description: fix current muxers.
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139 Our avi and mov muxer don't produce valid files
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147 Description: GSM decoder
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148 The <a href="http://kbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/~jutta/toast.html">Toast</a> implementation.
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155 Description: AMR decoder
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156 We will need to find one that isn't based on the reference code.
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163 Description: MusePack decoder
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164 Need I say more? <a href="http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?showtopic=21775&">MPCdec</a>. We are awaiting MPC 7.5 or 8.0 specification which should split the codec from the fileformat.
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171 Description: 24 bit LPCM
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172 - Increasingly more DVDs use 24 bit LPCM sound. We should support it.
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180 The LPCM decoder outputs really small samples which aren't accepted properly by the macosx coreaudio resampler, causing VLC to not output any sound with many DVD's. A test sample that shows this effect on the mac is the Madonna clip.
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187 Description: APE decoder
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188 Need I say more? <a href="http://www.monkeysaudio.com/">Monkeys Audio (APE)</a> website. This codec is currently not GPL compatible. We will have to await a GPL compatible implementation of this.
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195 Description: flash video playing/streaming
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196 A flash video muxer and demuxer. FFMPEG can already output flash video. a waste not to make use of that capability.
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203 Description: Closed Captions/Teletext support
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204 In order to conform to international regulations, VLC needs to be able to decode the closed captions in TV, DVD, DVB and HDTV video. V4L has a CC api, DVD and HDTV usually have them in a seperate stream.
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205 Perhaps look at Xawtv, dvbtext and other vbi, vtx systems.
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212 Description: DVB info in NIT
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213 We need to get the information of a DVB stream that are in the NIT (current program, next program, ...)
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220 Description: IceCast/ShoutCast serving
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221 This would be a nice thing for the sake of completeness of VLC's streaming capabilities.
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228 Description: New OS X preferences
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229 New preferences for Mac OS X. Current not suited for Mac Users and several
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230 Pref. elements are broken (hotkeys and int with string desc.).
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237 Description: OS X bookmarks window
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238 We miss a bookmarks window like the wxwidget one.
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245 Description: CoreAudio multichannel audio output.
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246 Convert to <a href="http://www.mat.ucsb.edu:8000/CoreAudio/108">AUHAL</a> based sytem.
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247 Still no info over S/PDIF output available.
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248 Outstanding issues:<br />
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249 - G5 S/PDIF not working<br />
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250 - G5 PCM not working because S/PDIF is selected by default, even if not connected.<br />
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257 Description: Stream text subtitles
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258 Find a a way to stream text subtitles, in TS and in RTP.
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259 - Find an existing norm
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261 <br />Needs testing and validating
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262 Status: 65% (fenrir)
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268 Description: RTSP server
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269 Full implementation of a RTSP server.
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276 Description: Add VoD module for VLM
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277 Add a VoD module for VLM, so that we can create a RTSP server that can
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278 provide unicast RTSP sessions upon contacting the VoD module. See the following
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279 <a href="http://via.ecp.fr/via/ml/streaming/200408/msg00082.html">mail</a>.
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286 Description: More Picture filters
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287 There are several picture filters (blend, scale), but we can use more (crop, move..)
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294 Description: Vout redesign
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295 - vout needs distinct splitting into vout_core, vout_window, pic_filter, vout_filter
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296 - needs 'assistence' vout windows (clone filters, goom) etc.
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297 - 4:3, 16:9, freeform Aspect Ratio
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298 - cropping and padding (do at OS level, but provide a core call to set it up and configure).
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299 - OSD at window resolution instead of video res (secondary vout channel)
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300 - a OSD needs to be bound to a vout stream (no subs on goom vout)
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301 - Use OS native calls where appropriate, with 'C' fallbacks. (OpenGL, Quartz, DirectX already has many of the funtionalities we seek and sometimes they are a lot faster too).
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308 Description: Subtitle work
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309 - better SSA support with postioning, colors etc.
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311 - Fix subtitles dialogs (mac done)
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318 Description: Automatic charset recognition
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319 See if we can use <a href="http://trific.ath.cx/software/enca/">ENCA</a> for automatic charset recognition on subtitle files. Might simplify usage of sub files a lot? Might require complete file to be parsed by ENCA before good result is returned?
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326 Description: skins2
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327 Port VLC skins to Objective C++ and OSX. Also requires the intf to be a dialog handler.
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334 Description: informing user.
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335 Implement a system to: <br />
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336 - Alert the user of critical errors (cannot play file). Should be blocking. <br />
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337 - Ask the user a question (Are you sure? or Try to Fix index of avi? or Overwrite File?)<br />
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338 - Inform the user, without disturbing him. (Buffering stream). This might require a displaytime or something. Because how do we know how long this information should be displayed? Also think of buffering 0-100%<br />
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339 - present a user/passwd dialog when we get an authentication failure on a stream.<br />
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346 Description: Full H323 Videoconferencing
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347 VLC isn't really suited for this yet, because it introduces quite large latencies. This should be fixed before the H323 can ever come close to working in VLC.
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348 We also will need SIP support.
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355 Description: SVCD support
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356 libcdio needs to be ported to the Mac to support the cddax and vcdx modules for proper SVCD support
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363 Description: QuickTime capturing
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364 Allow capturing from QuickTime Firewire, USB and PCI devices.
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365 Possibly see: <a href="http://bugzilla.videolan.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=416">Bug 416</a>
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372 Description: Finish Mac Mozilla plugin
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373 The Mac mozilla plugin needs some more work to be useable. Basic funtionality is working. However the video-output part needs some more work since it was crashing. See svn history for the old code.
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374 Status: Halfway (stalled)
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380 Description: Controlling the mozilla plugin
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381 The mozilla plugin needs to be better controllable (via javascript). <br />
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382 - retrieve variable values.<br />
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383 - open VLC media player<br />
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384 - default html page to control the plugin<br />
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385 - XUL controls<br />
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386 (80% done) see:<br />
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387 <a href="http://sierra.via.ecp.fr/~zorglub/vlc/plugin/vlc.html">Javascript controls</a>
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388 <a href="http://sierra.via.ecp.fr/~zorglub/vlc/xul/">XUL controls</a>
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389 <a href="http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/">MPlayer Mozilla plugin</a>
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390 Status: Assigned to zorglub
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396 Description: ActiveX control for VLC
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397 We need an ActiveX version of VLC for IE intergration
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404 Description: export paramaters of an input
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405 Export the Media Info of a file/source to a standard xml file for use by other applications. Possibly combine with file "probe'ing".<br />
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410 - codecs, etc.<br />
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417 Description: SSL http
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418 SSL encrypted HTTP communication. To support protected VoD.<br />
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419 The question is how to neatly integrate it into our API. Support for all our http handling plugins means complicating the API. Perhaps we should store the SSL context in the p_sys of the vlc_object that is calling it? Tad dangerous, but would keep stuff simple.
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426 Description: http cookies
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427 For protected VoD (http://a-select.surfnet.nl)
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434 Description: mime-type VLC launching
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435 Allow application/vlc mimetype to launch VLC instead of plugin for video file.
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436 Allows for Progressive download to TEMP folder from browsers. VLC would play the file in the TEMP.
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443 Description: rendezvous announces
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444 Apple released the rendezvous code under a Open Source license now. perhaps it can be used. (It's OpenTalk now btw).<br />
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445 DMAP protocol announce for videos.
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452 Description: SDL vout cleaning
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453 The SDL vout hasn't been updated for a long while. It needs some cleaning up. New hotkeys support, better resizing, alignment etc. Even though SDL isn't used much, this vout shouldn't disappear, because it is a crossplatform API.
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459 Platform: Win32/Linux
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460 Description: V4L and dshow tuning support
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461 We need an API that allows us to control the tuning of V4L and dshow TV cards.
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462 Status: Todo (CryHavoc)
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468 Description: Electronic Program Guide
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469 Integrate a EPG system into VLC.
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470 Status: Todo (CryHavoc)
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476 Description: a Time Shifting module
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477 This module should create TiVo like capabilities for VLC.
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478 Status: Todo (CryHavoc)
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484 Description: UDP packet reordering
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485 Currently we ignore every packet that is too late and just wait for a fresh one.
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486 It would be nice to be able to reorder the packets in the buffer to prevent degredation of the signal.
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493 Description: Make vlm more user friendly (setup etc)
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494 vlm is kinda a pain to setup if you are not entirely experienced with A/V and streaming or VLC for that matter. It can be heavily improved by updating the vlm http interface. Using seperate fields for the need paramters of a schedule/source.
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501 Description: Protocol rollover
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502 It would be cool if VLC supported something like a protocol rollover mechanism, much like WM server has as well. Multicast, UDP, TCP, HTTP etc.
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503 However, how spec compliant can this be?<br />
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504 We require a timeout on udp connecting. Beyond this a playlist file can be used to do a form of protocol rollover when one of the links fails ( or implement this in the new style playlist system [only advance index on failure]).
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511 Description: NAT issues
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512 Find a way to deal with clients behind a NAT. Multicast and RTSP work 'poorly' in these setups. NATP2P, STUN, UDP hole punching, other techniques ????
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513 Protocol rollover can be a solution for a lot of these issues.
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514 Use full DNS names in SDP
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521 Description: Gstreamer and Helix API integration
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522 See if you can support GStreamer and helix plugins in one way or another.
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529 Description: Gnome-vfs support
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530 For integration with smb, sftp and other file sharing/mounting methods
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537 Description: Update matroska demux
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545 Description: Matroska muxer
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552 Description: TTA decoder
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553 TTA is said to be a fast en good lossless codec. Opensource library
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554 availabe: http://tta.corecodec.org/
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561 Description: Option to automatically deinterlace when needed
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562 Mkv stores wether a video track is interlaced in the traxk descriptor
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563 libmpeg2 etc output this information on a per-picture bases
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570 Description: UDF decoder
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571 Support for the new XML based subtitle format called UDF
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578 Description: Faster deinterlacing
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579 Our deinterlacers are relatively slow. DScaler has the best Soft deinterlacers out there.
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580 Unfortunatly it is very Win32 focused.
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