2 # Difficulty values: Easy, Medium, Hard, Guru
4 # Urgency values: Wishlist, Normal, Important, Critical
10 Description: World domination
11 We need to dominate the world
18 Description: cli option for audio-channels
19 It's currently not possible to force VLC from stereo to mono mode, or from stereo to reverse stereo or dolby mode. It's one of the few options in VLC that can not yet be forced from Preferences or the commandline.
26 Description: Java wrapping/bindings
27 Allow java apps to use VLC perhaps? Several people have suggested something like this.
32 Platform: win32/macosx
34 Description: OS contextual menu support
35 Create contextual menus for the OS so you can play or enqueue files from the Finder/Explorer directly into VLC. Much like with for instance Winamp.
42 Description: CoreAudio multichannel audio output.
43 Convert to <a href="http://www.mat.ucsb.edu:8000/CoreAudio/108">AUHAL</a> based sytem.
44 Still no info over S/PDIF output available.
45 Outstanding issues:<br />
46 - G5 S/PDIF not working<br />
47 - G5 PCM not working because S/PDIF is selected by default, even if not connected.<br />
54 Description: fix subtitle regressions
55 Investigate behaviour of subpictures when pausing.<br />
60 Difficulty: Easy to Difficult
63 Description: Write some developer documentation
64 Perhaps a skeletal driver in each of the categories, what they need to
65 do, the design decisions, possibilities, or options that drivers in
66 a category might implement. If there is a canonical module for each
67 category or modules that show the range of options that might be mentioned
74 Description: Streaming wizard
75 Make a Streaming wizard for OS X
82 Description: configure overview of modules
83 configure should report what it will and what it won't build, after it is done running.
90 Description: Dual window in embed mode
91 Windows taskbar reports two windows in the video embed mode.
98 Description: Multi-input
99 * Many demuxers don't support it<br />
101 Status: Assigned to fenrir
107 Description: make everything UTF-8 based
108 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.
115 Description: Rewrite the SAP parser
116 The SAP parser is very dirty at the moment, and needs a complete rewrite.
117 - caching support<br />
118 - timeout support<br />
119 - add meta-information to playlist<br />
120 - session version support<br />
121 Status: Assigned to zorglub (80% done)
127 Description: Playlist II
128 A hierarchized playlist structure, eventually using a media library.
129 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 />
133 - *** Consider changing calls to playlist_Control into playlist_LockControl
134 - * "Name finder"<br />
135 - * "Protocol rollover" node<br />
136 - *** Item moving/copying facilities<br />
137 - * Ability to save playlist on quit<br />
138 - ? Represent navigation structure as "fake items" ? <br />
139 - Custom playlist format (http://xspf.xiph.org/ looks like a good idea)<br />
140 - Helper modules<br />
141 - ** ASX and B4S parsers (see below)<br />
142 - * Rewrite SLP announce discovery<br />
143 - * Live directory representation<br />
144 - *** Implement in Skins 2 interfaces<br />
145 - wx implementation :<br />
146 - ** Support item move/copy<br />
147 - * Explorer view<br />
148 - * Playlist preferences panel<br />
149 - ** Improve iteminfo dialog<br />
150 Status: Assigned to zorglub
156 Description: Improve bookmarks
157 - Put them in the input_item structure to have them persistent
158 - Add an input option to play the whole file but starting at a given bookmark
165 Description: fix ASX playlist parser
166 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/
173 Description: fix current muxers.<br />
174 Our avi muxer doesn't produce valid files<br />
182 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.<br />
183 This is now fixed, but there is a problem with buffers in the resampler that now sometimes overflows (or rather get changed after they are released). A good method for reproduction seems to be running Finding Nemo for a minute or 8.
190 Description: New OS X preferences
191 New preferences for Mac OS X. Current not suited for Mac Users and several
192 Pref. elements are broken (hotkeys and int with string desc.).
199 Description: OS X bookmarks window
200 We miss a bookmarks window like the wxwidget one.
207 Description: Finish Mac Mozilla plugin
208 The Mac mozilla plugin needs some more work to be useable. Mostly done now,
216 Description: Controlling the mozilla plugin
217 The mozilla plugin needs to be better controllable (via javascript). <br />
218 - retrieve variable values.<br />
219 - open VLC media player<br />
220 - default html page to control the plugin<br />
222 (80% done) see:<br />
223 <a href="http://sierra.via.ecp.fr/~zorglub/vlc/plugin/vlc.html">Javascript controls</a>
224 <a href="http://sierra.via.ecp.fr/~zorglub/vlc/xul/">XUL controls</a>
225 <a href="http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/">MPlayer Mozilla plugin</a>
226 Status: Assigned to zorglub
230 Platform: Win32, Linux
232 Description: equalizer fixes
233 - Gray out "reset to defaults" for audio equalizer when disabled<br />
234 - Once audio equalizer is disabled, it doesn't enable the first
235 try when you select from main menu. It only works a 2nd change
236 (enable flag not properly set?).
237 To have this work correctly, the best solution is to remove knowledge of
238 presets from the filter and give it to ... core ?
243 Platform: Win32, Linux
245 Description: wxWidgets fixes
246 - Rename wxWindows to wxWidgets<br />
247 - Problems with slider (doesn't go where you click, keep updating while seeking
255 Description: SVCD support
256 Support the cddax and vcdx modules for proper SVCD support. libcdio seems to work a tad flacky under OS X. Cause is unknown.
263 Description: Stream text subtitles
264 Find a a way to stream text subtitles, in TS and in RTP.<br />
265 Needs testing and validating<br />
273 Description: RTSP server
274 Full implementation of a RTSP server. We already have a very basic implementation working but it does need a lot more work. See the following <a href="http://via.ecp.fr/via/ml/streaming/200408/msg00068.html">mail</a> and <a href="http://via.ecp.fr/via/ml/streaming/200410/msg00002.html">mail</a>.
280 Platform: Win32/Linux
281 Description: V4L and dshow tuning support
282 We need an API that allows us to control the tuning of V4L and dshow TV cards.
283 Status: Todo (CryHavoc)
289 Description: RAR/ZIP/... access
290 An access module that would be able to uncompress compressed files.
297 Description: DVTS support
298 DV over RTP support. See <a href="http://www.sfc.wide.ad.jp/DVTS/">DVTS homepage</a>
305 Description: WinCE port finalizing
306 The WinCE port needs a little maturing and optimization.
307 Status: Assigned to gibalou
313 Description: Full blown OSD system
314 In the line of freevo etc.
315 (Checkout the correct svn branch)
316 Status: 80% done. Assigned to thedj, jpsaman and yoann
322 Description: GSM decoder
323 The <a href="http://kbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/~jutta/toast.html">Toast</a> implementation.
330 Description: AMR decoder
331 We will need to find one that isn't based on the reference code.
338 Description: MusePack decoder
339 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.
346 Description: APE decoder
347 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.
354 Description: flash video playing/streaming
355 A flash video muxer and demuxer. FFMPEG can already output flash video. a waste not to make use of that capability.
362 Description: Closed Captions/Teletext support
363 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.<br />
364 - Use ZVBI library for VBI decoding and image generation<br />
365 - ESTI EN 300 472 for EBU teletext support in DVB<br />
366 Perhaps look at Xawtv, dvbtext and other vbi, vtx systems.
373 Description: DVB info in NIT
374 We need to get the information of a DVB stream that are in the NIT (current program, next program, ...)
381 Description: IceCast/ShoutCast serving
382 This would be a nice thing for the sake of completeness of VLC's streaming capabilities.
389 Description: More/Better Picture filters
390 There are several picture filters (blend, scale), but we can use more (screenshot, crop, move..) We probably need on the fly picture filter insertion as well. (and also not-on-the-fly)<br />
391 - ideas for new filters are a greenwall filter, and a goom filter that mixes goom effects into the vout.
398 Description: Vout redesign
399 - vout needs distinct splitting into vout_core, vout_window, pic_filter, vout_filter<br />
400 - needs 'assistance' vout windows (clone filters, goom) etc.<br />
401 - 4:3, 16:9, freeform Aspect Ratio<br />
402 - cropping and padding (do at OS level, but provide a core call to set it up and configure).<br />
403 - OSD at window resolution instead of video res (secondary vout channel)<br />
404 - a OSD needs to be bound to a vout stream (no subs on goom vout)<br />
405 - 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).<br />
406 - Allow a vout to reuse a window by resizing it (instead of closing and opening).
407 - better hotkeys integration
414 Description: Subtitle work
415 - better SSA support with postioning, colors etc.<br />
422 Description: Automatic charset recognition
423 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?
431 Port VLC skins to Objective C++ and OSX. Also requires the intf to be a dialog provider. There is already some code in the VLC sourcetree.<br />
433 - In a first step, the need for a dialog provider can be easily omitted.<br />
434 - In theory, only a small amount of classes (6 or so) must be written for OS X, implementing predefined interfaces.<br />
435 - The code of <a href="http://www.fltk.org">FLTK</a> could be really helpful to identify the correct functions and see how to use them.
442 Description: informing user.
443 Implement a system to: <br />
444 - Alert the user of critical errors (cannot play file). Should be blocking. <br />
445 - Ask the user a question (Are you sure? or Try to Fix index of avi? or Overwrite File?)<br />
446 - 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 />
447 - present a user/passwd dialog when we get an authentication failure on a stream.<br />
448 Implementation ideas: <br />
449 - via variables and callbacks. How to give answers back ?<br />
450 - via p_intf->pf_* functions.<br />
457 Description: Full H323 Videoconferencing
458 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.
459 We also will need SIP support. A first implementation using a custom protocol is being made.
466 Description: QuickTime capturing
467 Allow capturing from QuickTime Firewire, USB and PCI devices.
468 Possibly see: <a href="http://bugzilla.videolan.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=416">Bug 416</a>
475 Description: export paramaters of an input
476 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 />
488 Description: statistics
489 Count packetloss, bandwith usage and fps for statistics.<br />
496 Description: http cookies
497 For protected VoD (http://a-select.surfnet.nl)
504 Description: Progressive download playing
505 Allow application/vlc mimetype to launch VLC instead of plugin for video file.
506 Allows for Progressive download to TEMP folder from browsers. VLC would play the file in the TEMP.
513 Description: rendezvous announces
514 Apple released the rendezvous code under a Open Source license now. perhaps it can be used. (It's OpenTalk now btw).<br />
515 Note: the licence is probably not DFSG compatible. Alternative mDNS implementations exist<br />
516 DMAP protocol announce for videos.
517 Status: Partly done (DAAP only)
523 Description: SDL vout cleaning
524 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.
531 Description: Electronic Program Guide
532 Integrate a EPG system into VLC.
533 Status: Todo (CryHavoc)
539 Description: a Time Shifting module
540 This module should create TiVo like capabilities for VLC.
541 Status: Todo (CryHavoc)
547 Description: UDP packet reordering
548 Currently we ignore every packet that is too late and just wait for a fresh one.
549 It would be nice to be able to reorder the packets in the buffer to prevent degredation of the signal.
556 Description: Make vlm more user friendly (setup etc)
557 vlm is kinda a pain to setup if you are not entirely experienced with A/V and streaming or VLC for that matter.<br />
558 It can be heavily improved by updating the vlm http interface. Using seperate fields for the need paramters of a schedule/source.<br />
559 Also, GUI implementation.
566 Description: Protocol rollover
567 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.
568 However, how spec compliant can this be?<br />
569 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]).
576 Description: NAT issues
577 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 ????
578 Protocol rollover can be a solution for a lot of these issues.
579 Use full DNS names in SDP
586 Description: Gstreamer and Helix API integration
587 See if you can support GStreamer and helix plugins in one way or another.
594 Description: Gnome-vfs support
595 For integration with smb, sftp and other file sharing/mounting methods
602 Description: Matroska muxer
610 Description: TTA decoder
611 TTA is said to be a fast en good lossless codec. Opensource library
612 availabe: http://tta.corecodec.org/
619 Description: Option to automatically deinterlace when needed
620 Mkv stores wether a video track is interlaced in the traxk descriptor
621 libmpeg2 etc output this information in the header AND on a per-picture basis
628 Description: UDF decoder
629 Support for the new XML based subtitle format called UDF
636 Description: Faster deinterlacing
637 Our deinterlacers are relatively slow. DScaler has the best Soft deinterlacers out there.
638 Unfortunatly it is very Win32 focused.
645 Description: More service discovery modules
646 - Port UPnP support from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=89768 <br />
647 - libhal based discovery (should be able to find cd, dvd, capture cards, etc etc <br />
648 - Perhaps a generalized webpage parser (use user supplied templates to parse
649 streams from popular websites )
656 Description: file filters in the open dialog
657 Have default filters in the open dialog. like:
659 Sound Files( .mp3, .ogg, .wav, .m4a, .m4p)<br />
660 Video Files( .avi, .mkv, .mov, .mpg, .m2v, etc)<br />
661 Subtitle Files( .idx, .sub, .utf, .srt)<br />
668 Description: OpenGL improvements
669 OpenGL extensions can be querried at runtime using the glGetString(
670 GL_EXTENSIONS ) call. Both rectangular textures and yuv textures may be
671 available at non-apple platform (or even not available on some macs).<br />
672 More fancy stuff can be done with GL, like subpicture rendering.<br />
673 With recent hardware (and opengl shading language) stuff like dct, motion
674 compensation or postprocessing should be possible.
680 Description: Gnutella servlet
681 A simple gnutella servlet, combined with vlc's stream output/input features
682 would make it fairly easy to implement peercast streaming, and peercast
683 playback with restreaming. Also I guess gnutella could be used for other
684 things as well, like discovering services.
projects / vlc / blob