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: Update matroska demux
46 Description: proper DVD controls
47 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.
52 Platform: Linux, Win32, Mac OS X
54 Description: Streaming wizard
55 Finish the streaming wizard (85% finished)<br />
56 The mac version is at 0%
57 Status: Assigned to zorglub
63 Description: configure overview of modules
64 configure should report what it will and what it won't build, after it is done running.
71 Description: Dual window in embed mode
72 Windows taskbar reports two windows in the video embed mode.
79 Description: External audio file playing
80 Allow several access from an input thread to allow for multi-input<br />
81 (90% done) Add GUI elements
82 Status: Assigned to fenrir
88 Description: make everything UTF-8 based
89 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.
96 Description: Rewrite the SAP parser
97 The SAP parser is very dirty at the moment, and needs a complete rewrite.
98 - caching support<br />
99 - timeout support<br />
100 - add meta-information to playlist<br />
101 - session version support<br />
102 Status: Assigned to zorglub (80% done)
108 Description: Playlist II
109 A hierarchized playlist structure, eventually using a media library.
110 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 />
114 - * "Name finder"<br />
115 - * "Protocol rollover" node<br />
116 - *** Item moving/copying facilities<br />
117 - * Ability to save playlist on quit<br />
118 - ? Represent navigation structure as "fake items" ? <br />
119 - Custom playlist format<br />
120 - Helper modules<br />
121 - ** ASX and B4S parsers (see below)<br />
122 - * Rewrite SLP announce discovery<br />
123 - * Live directory representation<br />
124 - *** Implement in MacOS X and Skins 2 interfaces<br />
125 - wx implementation :<br />
126 - ** Support item move/copy<br />
127 - * Explorer view<br />
128 - * Playlist preferences panel<br />
129 - ** Improve iteminfo dialog<br />
130 Status: Assigned to zorglub
136 Description: Improve bookmarks
137 - Put them in the input_item structure to have them persistent
138 - Add an input option to play the whole file but starting at a given bookmark
144 Platform: Win32, Linux
145 Description: DVD controls panel
146 A small panel that would popup (below the slider, for example) when playing
147 a DVD with controls such as "up, down, right, left, next chapter, prev chapter, back to menu, ..."
154 Description: fix ASX playlist parser
155 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/
162 Description: fix current muxers.
163 Our avi muxer doesn't produce valid files
170 Description: 24 bit LPCM
171 - Increasingly more DVDs use 24 bit LPCM sound. We should support it.
179 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.
186 Description: Rework of the preferences
187 * New information in preferences for a rework of how preferences are sorted in interfaces
189 See http://www.via.ecp.fr/via/ml/vlc-devel/200409/msg00409.html
190 Status: Assigned to zorglub
196 Description: New OS X preferences
197 New preferences for Mac OS X. Current not suited for Mac Users and several
198 Pref. elements are broken (hotkeys and int with string desc.).
205 Description: OS X bookmarks window
206 We miss a bookmarks window like the wxwidget one.
213 Description: Finish Mac Mozilla plugin
214 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.
215 Status: Halfway (stalled)
221 Description: Controlling the mozilla plugin
222 The mozilla plugin needs to be better controllable (via javascript). <br />
223 - retrieve variable values.<br />
224 - open VLC media player<br />
225 - default html page to control the plugin<br />
227 (80% done) see:<br />
228 <a href="http://sierra.via.ecp.fr/~zorglub/vlc/plugin/vlc.html">Javascript controls</a>
229 <a href="http://sierra.via.ecp.fr/~zorglub/vlc/xul/">XUL controls</a>
230 <a href="http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/">MPlayer Mozilla plugin</a>
231 Status: Assigned to zorglub
235 Platform: Win32, Linux
237 Description: equalizer fixes
238 - Gray out "reset to defaults" for audio equalizer when disabled<br />
239 - Once audio equalizer is disabled, it doesn't enable the first
240 try when you select from main menu. It only works a 2nd change
241 (enable flag not properly set?).
246 Platform: Win32, Linux
248 Description: wxWidgets fixes
249 - Rename wxWindows to wxWidgets<br />
250 - Problems with slider (doesn't go where you click, keep updating while seeking
259 Description: SVCD support
260 libcdio needs to be ported to the Mac to support the cddax and vcdx modules for proper SVCD support
267 Description: Stream text subtitles
268 Find a a way to stream text subtitles, in TS and in RTP.<br />
269 Needs testing and validating
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) and an interface.
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
318 Description: Full blown OSD system
319 In the line of freevo etc.
320 Status: Assigned to thedj, jpsaman and yoann
326 Description: GSM decoder
327 The <a href="http://kbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/~jutta/toast.html">Toast</a> implementation.
334 Description: AMR decoder
335 We will need to find one that isn't based on the reference code.
342 Description: MusePack decoder
343 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.
350 Description: APE decoder
351 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.
358 Description: flash video playing/streaming
359 A flash video muxer and demuxer. FFMPEG can already output flash video. a waste not to make use of that capability.
366 Description: Closed Captions/Teletext support
367 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 />
368 - Use ZVBI library for VBI decoding and image generation<br />
369 - ESTI EN 300 472 for EBU teletext support in DVB<br />
370 Perhaps look at Xawtv, dvbtext and other vbi, vtx systems.
377 Description: DVB info in NIT
378 We need to get the information of a DVB stream that are in the NIT (current program, next program, ...)
385 Description: IceCast/ShoutCast serving
386 This would be a nice thing for the sake of completeness of VLC's streaming capabilities.
393 Description: More/Better Picture filters
394 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.
401 Description: Vout redesign
402 - vout needs distinct splitting into vout_core, vout_window, pic_filter, vout_filter
403 - needs 'assistence' vout windows (clone filters, goom) etc.
404 - 4:3, 16:9, freeform Aspect Ratio
405 - cropping and padding (do at OS level, but provide a core call to set it up and configure).
406 - OSD at window resolution instead of video res (secondary vout channel)
407 - a OSD needs to be bound to a vout stream (no subs on goom vout)
408 - 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).
415 Description: Subtitle work
416 - better SSA support with postioning, colors etc.
417 - Fix subtitles dialogs (mac done)
424 Description: Automatic charset recognition
425 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?
433 Port VLC skins to Objective C++ and OSX. Also requires the intf to be a dialog handler.
440 Description: informing user.
441 Implement a system to: <br />
442 - Alert the user of critical errors (cannot play file). Should be blocking. <br />
443 - Ask the user a question (Are you sure? or Try to Fix index of avi? or Overwrite File?)<br />
444 - 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 />
445 - present a user/passwd dialog when we get an authentication failure on a stream.<br />
452 Description: Full H323 Videoconferencing
453 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.
454 We also will need SIP support.
461 Description: QuickTime capturing
462 Allow capturing from QuickTime Firewire, USB and PCI devices.
463 Possibly see: <a href="http://bugzilla.videolan.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=416">Bug 416</a>
470 Description: ActiveX control for VLC
471 We need an ActiveX version of VLC for IE intergration
478 Description: export paramaters of an input
479 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 />
491 Description: SSL http
492 SSL encrypted HTTP communication. To support protected VoD.<br />
493 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.
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 DMAP protocol announce for videos.
526 Description: SDL vout cleaning
527 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.
534 Description: Electronic Program Guide
535 Integrate a EPG system into VLC.
536 Status: Todo (CryHavoc)
542 Description: a Time Shifting module
543 This module should create TiVo like capabilities for VLC.
544 Status: Todo (CryHavoc)
550 Description: UDP packet reordering
551 Currently we ignore every packet that is too late and just wait for a fresh one.
552 It would be nice to be able to reorder the packets in the buffer to prevent degredation of the signal.
559 Description: Make vlm more user friendly (setup etc)
560 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.
567 Description: Protocol rollover
568 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.
569 However, how spec compliant can this be?<br />
570 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]).
577 Description: NAT issues
578 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 ????
579 Protocol rollover can be a solution for a lot of these issues.
580 Use full DNS names in SDP
587 Description: Gstreamer and Helix API integration
588 See if you can support GStreamer and helix plugins in one way or another.
595 Description: Gnome-vfs support
596 For integration with smb, sftp and other file sharing/mounting methods
603 Description: Matroska muxer
611 Description: TTA decoder
612 TTA is said to be a fast en good lossless codec. Opensource library
613 availabe: http://tta.corecodec.org/
620 Description: Option to automatically deinterlace when needed
621 Mkv stores wether a video track is interlaced in the traxk descriptor
622 libmpeg2 etc output this information in the header AND on a per-picture basis
629 Description: UDF decoder
630 Support for the new XML based subtitle format called UDF
637 Description: Faster deinterlacing
638 Our deinterlacers are relatively slow. DScaler has the best Soft deinterlacers out there.
639 Unfortunatly it is very Win32 focused.
646 Description: More service discovery modules
647 - Port UPnP support from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=89768 <br />
648 - libhal based discovery (should be able to find cd,dvd,capture cards,etc etc <br />
649 - Perhaps a generalized webpage parser (use user supplied templates to parse
650 streams from popular websites )
657 Description: Autoselect a track based on preferred language
658 Problems might exist with formats that don't have headers?
659 Most part easy to do, because the language info is stored in the ES format structs these days.
666 Description: file filters in the open dialog
667 Have default filters in the open dialog. like:
669 Sound Files( .mp3, .ogg, .wav, .m4a, .m4p)<br />
670 Video Files( .avi, .mkv, .mov, .mpg, .m2v, etc)<br />
671 Subtitle Files( .idx, .sub, .utf, .srt)<br />
678 Description: fix subtitle regressions
679 Multi-line subtitles are not aligned correctly. Text subtitles don't work
680 with 32bpp rgb. Investigate behaviour of subpictures when pausing.
684 Difficulty: Easy to Difficult
687 Description: Write some developer documentation
688 Perhaps a skeletal driver in each of the categories, what they need to
689 do, the design decisions, possibilities, or options that drivers in
690 a category might implement. If there is a canonical module for each
691 category or modules that show the range of options that might be mentioned
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