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: Clock Synchro redesign
19 We need to adapt the clock synchro to work better with BOTH files and streams.
26 Description: CoreAudio multichannel audio output.
27 Convert to <a href="http://www.mat.ucsb.edu:8000/CoreAudio/108">AUHAL</a> based sytem.
28 Still no info over S/PDIF output available.
29 Outstanding issues:<br />
30 - G5 S/PDIF not working<br />
31 - G5 PCM not working because S/PDIF is selected by default, even if not connected.<br />
38 Description: fix subtitle regressions
39 Multi-line subtitles are not aligned correctly.<br />
40 Text subtitles don't work with 32bpp rgb.<br />
41 Investigate behaviour of subpictures when pausing.<br />
42 Negative delaying broken<br />
50 Description: Update matroska demux
55 Difficulty: Easy to Difficult
58 Description: Write some developer documentation
59 Perhaps a skeletal driver in each of the categories, what they need to
60 do, the design decisions, possibilities, or options that drivers in
61 a category might implement. If there is a canonical module for each
62 category or modules that show the range of options that might be mentioned
69 Description: Streaming wizard
70 Make a Streaming wizard for OS X
77 Description: configure overview of modules
78 configure should report what it will and what it won't build, after it is done running.
85 Description: Dual window in embed mode
86 Windows taskbar reports two windows in the video embed mode.
93 Description: Multi-input
94 * Core support done<br />
95 * Many demuxers don't support it<br />
97 Status: Assigned to fenrir
103 Description: make everything UTF-8 based
104 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.
111 Description: Rewrite the SAP parser
112 The SAP parser is very dirty at the moment, and needs a complete rewrite.
113 - caching support<br />
114 - timeout support<br />
115 - add meta-information to playlist<br />
116 - session version support<br />
117 Status: Assigned to zorglub (80% done)
123 Description: Playlist II
124 A hierarchized playlist structure, eventually using a media library.
125 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 />
129 - * "Name finder"<br />
130 - * "Protocol rollover" node<br />
131 - *** Item moving/copying facilities<br />
132 - * Ability to save playlist on quit<br />
133 - ? Represent navigation structure as "fake items" ? <br />
134 - Custom playlist format<br />
135 - Helper modules<br />
136 - ** ASX and B4S parsers (see below)<br />
137 - * Rewrite SLP announce discovery<br />
138 - * Live directory representation<br />
139 - *** Implement in Skins 2 interfaces<br />
140 - wx implementation :<br />
141 - *** Fix deadlocks<br />
142 - ** Support item move/copy<br />
143 - * Explorer view<br />
144 - * Playlist preferences panel<br />
145 - ** Improve iteminfo dialog<br />
146 Status: Assigned to zorglub
152 Description: Improve bookmarks
153 - Put them in the input_item structure to have them persistent
154 - Add an input option to play the whole file but starting at a given bookmark
161 Description: fix ASX playlist parser
162 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/
169 Description: fix current muxers.
170 Our avi muxer doesn't produce valid files
177 Description: 24 bit LPCM
178 - Increasingly more DVDs use 24 bit LPCM sound. We should support it.
186 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.
193 Description: New OS X preferences
194 New preferences for Mac OS X. Current not suited for Mac Users and several
195 Pref. elements are broken (hotkeys and int with string desc.).
202 Description: OS X bookmarks window
203 We miss a bookmarks window like the wxwidget one.
210 Description: Finish Mac Mozilla plugin
211 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.
212 Status: Halfway (stalled)
218 Description: Controlling the mozilla plugin
219 The mozilla plugin needs to be better controllable (via javascript). <br />
220 - retrieve variable values.<br />
221 - open VLC media player<br />
222 - default html page to control the plugin<br />
224 (80% done) see:<br />
225 <a href="http://sierra.via.ecp.fr/~zorglub/vlc/plugin/vlc.html">Javascript controls</a>
226 <a href="http://sierra.via.ecp.fr/~zorglub/vlc/xul/">XUL controls</a>
227 <a href="http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/">MPlayer Mozilla plugin</a>
228 Status: Assigned to zorglub
232 Platform: Win32, Linux
234 Description: equalizer fixes
235 - Gray out "reset to defaults" for audio equalizer when disabled<br />
236 - Once audio equalizer is disabled, it doesn't enable the first
237 try when you select from main menu. It only works a 2nd change
238 (enable flag not properly set?).
239 To have this work correctly, the best solution is to remove knowledge of
240 presets from the filter and give it to ... core ?
245 Platform: Win32, Linux
247 Description: wxWidgets fixes
248 - Rename wxWindows to wxWidgets<br />
249 - Problems with slider (doesn't go where you click, keep updating while seeking
258 Description: SVCD support
259 libcdio needs to be ported to the Mac to support the cddax and vcdx modules for proper SVCD support
266 Description: Stream text subtitles
267 Find a a way to stream text subtitles, in TS and in RTP.<br />
268 Needs testing and validating<br />
276 Description: RTSP server
277 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>.
283 Platform: Win32/Linux
284 Description: V4L and dshow tuning support
285 We need an API that allows us to control the tuning of V4L and dshow TV cards.
286 Status: Todo (CryHavoc)
292 Description: RAR/ZIP/... access
293 An access module that would be able to uncompress compressed files.
300 Description: DVTS support
301 DV over RTP support. See <a href="http://www.sfc.wide.ad.jp/DVTS/">DVTS homepage</a>
308 Description: WinCE port finalizing
309 The WinCE port is already quite functional but we still miss a GAPI video output (GDI works but is slow).
310 Some code already exists for that (http://sourceforge.net/projects/vlcpocketpc/) and would need to be imported into the VLC source tree.
311 Downloads should be added to the main vlc download page. We need an icon for this.
312 Status: Assigned to MixerAnderson and gibalou
318 Description: Full blown OSD system
319 In the line of freevo etc.
320 (Checkout the correct svn branch)
321 Status: 75% done. Assigned to thedj, jpsaman and yoann
327 Description: GSM decoder
328 The <a href="http://kbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/~jutta/toast.html">Toast</a> implementation.
335 Description: AMR decoder
336 We will need to find one that isn't based on the reference code.
343 Description: MusePack decoder
344 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.
351 Description: APE decoder
352 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.
359 Description: flash video playing/streaming
360 A flash video muxer and demuxer. FFMPEG can already output flash video. a waste not to make use of that capability.
367 Description: Closed Captions/Teletext support
368 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 />
369 - Use ZVBI library for VBI decoding and image generation<br />
370 - ESTI EN 300 472 for EBU teletext support in DVB<br />
371 Perhaps look at Xawtv, dvbtext and other vbi, vtx systems.
378 Description: DVB info in NIT
379 We need to get the information of a DVB stream that are in the NIT (current program, next program, ...)
386 Description: IceCast/ShoutCast serving
387 This would be a nice thing for the sake of completeness of VLC's streaming capabilities.
394 Description: More/Better Picture filters
395 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)
402 Description: Vout redesign
403 - vout needs distinct splitting into vout_core, vout_window, pic_filter, vout_filter<br />
404 - needs 'assistance' vout windows (clone filters, goom) etc.<br />
405 - 4:3, 16:9, freeform Aspect Ratio<br />
406 - cropping and padding (do at OS level, but provide a core call to set it up and configure).<br />
407 - OSD at window resolution instead of video res (secondary vout channel)<br />
408 - a OSD needs to be bound to a vout stream (no subs on goom vout)<br />
409 - 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 />
410 - better hotkeys integration
417 Description: Subtitle work
418 - better SSA support with postioning, colors etc.<br />
419 - Fix subtitles dialogs (mac done)
426 Description: Automatic charset recognition
427 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?
435 Port VLC skins to Objective C++ and OSX. Also requires the intf to be a dialog provider.<br />
437 - In a first step, the need for a dialog provider can be easily omitted.<br />
438 - In theory, only a small amount of classes (6 or so) must be written for OS X, implementing predefined interfaces.<br />
439 - 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.
446 Description: informing user.
447 Implement a system to: <br />
448 - Alert the user of critical errors (cannot play file). Should be blocking. <br />
449 - Ask the user a question (Are you sure? or Try to Fix index of avi? or Overwrite File?)<br />
450 - 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 />
451 - present a user/passwd dialog when we get an authentication failure on a stream.<br />
452 Implementation ideas: <br />
453 - via variables and callbacks. How to give answers back ?<br />
454 - via p_intf->pf_* functions.<br />
461 Description: Full H323 Videoconferencing
462 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.
463 We also will need SIP support. A first implementation using a custom protocol is being made.
470 Description: QuickTime capturing
471 Allow capturing from QuickTime Firewire, USB and PCI devices.
472 Possibly see: <a href="http://bugzilla.videolan.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=416">Bug 416</a>
479 Description: ActiveX control for VLC
480 We need an ActiveX version of VLC for IE integration
481 Status: Done by damienf
487 Description: export paramaters of an input
488 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 />
500 Description: http cookies
501 For protected VoD (http://a-select.surfnet.nl)
508 Description: Progressive download playing
509 Allow application/vlc mimetype to launch VLC instead of plugin for video file.
510 Allows for Progressive download to TEMP folder from browsers. VLC would play the file in the TEMP.
517 Description: rendezvous announces
518 Apple released the rendezvous code under a Open Source license now. perhaps it can be used. (It's OpenTalk now btw).<br />
519 Note: the licence is probably not DFSG compatible. Alternative mDNS implementations exist<br />
520 DMAP protocol announce for videos.
521 Status: Partly done (DAAP only)
527 Description: SDL vout cleaning
528 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.
535 Description: Electronic Program Guide
536 Integrate a EPG system into VLC.
537 Status: Todo (CryHavoc)
543 Description: a Time Shifting module
544 This module should create TiVo like capabilities for VLC.
545 Status: Todo (CryHavoc)
551 Description: UDP packet reordering
552 Currently we ignore every packet that is too late and just wait for a fresh one.
553 It would be nice to be able to reorder the packets in the buffer to prevent degredation of the signal.
560 Description: Make vlm more user friendly (setup etc)
561 vlm is kinda a pain to setup if you are not entirely experienced with A/V and streaming or VLC for that matter.<br />
562 It can be heavily improved by updating the vlm http interface. Using seperate fields for the need paramters of a schedule/source.<br />
563 Also, GUI implementation.
570 Description: Protocol rollover
571 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.
572 However, how spec compliant can this be?<br />
573 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]).
580 Description: NAT issues
581 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 ????
582 Protocol rollover can be a solution for a lot of these issues.
583 Use full DNS names in SDP
590 Description: Gstreamer and Helix API integration
591 See if you can support GStreamer and helix plugins in one way or another.
598 Description: Gnome-vfs support
599 For integration with smb, sftp and other file sharing/mounting methods
606 Description: Matroska muxer
614 Description: TTA decoder
615 TTA is said to be a fast en good lossless codec. Opensource library
616 availabe: http://tta.corecodec.org/
623 Description: Option to automatically deinterlace when needed
624 Mkv stores wether a video track is interlaced in the traxk descriptor
625 libmpeg2 etc output this information in the header AND on a per-picture basis
632 Description: UDF decoder
633 Support for the new XML based subtitle format called UDF
640 Description: Faster deinterlacing
641 Our deinterlacers are relatively slow. DScaler has the best Soft deinterlacers out there.
642 Unfortunatly it is very Win32 focused.
649 Description: More service discovery modules
650 - Port UPnP support from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=89768 <br />
651 - libhal based discovery (should be able to find cd,dvd,capture cards,etc etc <br />
652 - Perhaps a generalized webpage parser (use user supplied templates to parse
653 streams from popular websites )
660 Description: Autoselect a track based on preferred language
661 Problems might exist with formats that don't have headers?
662 Most part easy to do, because the language info is stored in the ES format structs these days.
669 Description: file filters in the open dialog
670 Have default filters in the open dialog. like:
672 Sound Files( .mp3, .ogg, .wav, .m4a, .m4p)<br />
673 Video Files( .avi, .mkv, .mov, .mpg, .m2v, etc)<br />
674 Subtitle Files( .idx, .sub, .utf, .srt)<br />
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