-# VLC Todo
-# Difficulty values: Easy, Medium, Hard, Guru
-#
-# Urgency values: Wishlist, Normal, Important, Critical
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-Task
-Difficulty: Easy
-Urgency: Critical
-Platform: any
-Description: World domination
- We need to dominate the world
-Status: Todo
-
-Task
-Difficulty: Medium
-Platform: any
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Description: RAR/ZIP/... access
- An access module that would be able to uncompress compressed files
-Status: Todo
-
-Task
-Difficulty: Easy
-Platform: any
-Urgency: Urgent
-Description: proper DVD controls
-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.
-Status: Todo
-
-Task
-Difficulty: Easy
-Platform: Linux, Win32
-Urgency: Normal
-Description: Streaming wizard
- Finish the streaming wizard (85% finished)
-Status: Assigned to zorglub
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-Task
-Difficulty: Easy
-Platform: all
-Urgency: Normal
-Description: configure overview of modules
- configure should report what it will and what it won't build, after it is done running.
-Status: Todo
-
-Task
-Difficulty: Hard
-Platform: WinCE
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Description: WinCE port finalizing
-Sources need to be imported into the VLC source tree.
-Downloads should be added to the main vlc download page. We need an icon for this.
-Status: Assigned to MixerAnderson
-
-Task
-Difficulty: Hard
-Urgency: Normal
-Platform: any
-Description: Dual window in embed mode
-Windows ttaskbar reports two windows in the video embed mode.
-Status: Assigned to gibalou
-
-Task
-Difficulty: Easy
-Urgency: Normal
-Platform: any
-Description: Multichannel downmixing
-5:1 to Stereo proper downmixing
-Status: Todo
-
-Task
-Difficulty: Guru
-Platform: any
-Urgency: Normal
-Description: Demux2 transition
- Complete the transition to demux2. Bughunting and finishing chapter support (80% done)
-Status: Assigned to fenrir
-
-Task
-Difficulty: Guru
-Urgency: Normal
-Platform: any
-Description: Multi-acccess
- Allow several access from an input thread to allow for multi-input (30% done)
-Status: Assigned to fenrir
-
-Task
-Difficulty: Hard
-Urgency: Normal
-Platform: any
-Description: make everything UTF-8 based
- 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.
-Status: Todo
-
-Task
-Difficulty: Medium
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: any
-Description: no blocking primary interface
-Do away with the strange primary blocking interface. The first interface should be run in the same thread, but not be the blocking call. Load other interfaces in new threads.
-Status: Todo
-
-Task
-Difficulty: Medium
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: any
-Description: OSD Icons
- Make OSD Icons for Play/Pause/Stop. Integrate them better into the core system.
-Status: Assigned to yoann
-
-Task
-Difficulty: Medium
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: any
-Description: Full blown OSD system
- In the line of freevo etc.
-Status: Todo
-
-Task
-Difficulty: Medium
-Urgency: Normal
-Platform: any
-Description: Rewrite the SAP parser
- The SAP parser is very dirty at the moment, and needs a complete rewrite.
- - caching support
-Status: Todo
-
-Task
-Difficulty: Medium
-Urgency: Normal
-Platform: any
-Description: Tree playlist
- A hierarchized playlist structure, eventually using a media library.
-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</a>
-Status: Todo
-
-Task
-Difficulty: Easy
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: any
-Description: GSM decoder
-GSM decoder not based on standard reference sources.
-Status: Todo
-
-Task
-Difficulty: Easy
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: any
-Description: MusePack decoder
-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.
-Status: Todo
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-Task
-Difficulty: Easy
-Urgency: Normal
-Platform: any
-Description: 24 bit LPCM
-- Increasingly more DVDs use 24 bit LPCM sound. We should support it.
-Status: Todo
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-Task
-Difficulty: Easy
-Urgency: Normal
-Platform: any
-Description: LPCM on mac
-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.
-Status: Todo
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-Task
-Difficulty: Easy
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: any
-Description: APE decoder
-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.
-Status: Todo
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-Task
-Task
-Difficulty: Medium
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: any
-Description: Closed Captions/Teletext support
-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.
-Perhaps look at Xawtv, dvbtext and other vbi, vtx systems.
-Status: Todo
-
-Task
-Difficulty: Medium
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: any
-Description: DVB info in NIT
-We need to get the information of a DVB stream that are in the NIT (current program, next program, ...)
-Status: Todo
-
-Task
-Difficulty: Medium
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: any
-Description: IceCast/ShoutCast serving
-This would be a nice thing for the sake of completeness of VLC's streaming capabilities.
-Status: Todo
-
-Task
-Difficulty: Hard
-Urgency: Normal
-Platform: Mac OS X
-Description: New OS X preferences
- New preferences for Mac OS X. Current not suited for Mac Users and several
-Pref. elements are broken (hotkeys and int with string desc.).
-Status: Assigned to thedj
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-Task
-Difficulty: Hard
-Urgency: Critical
-Platform: OSX
-Description: CoreAudio multichannel audio output.
- Convert to <a href="http://www.mat.ucsb.edu:8000/CoreAudio/108">AUHAL</a> based sytem.
-Still no info over S/PDIF output available.
-Outstanding issues:<br />
- - G5 S/PDIF not working<br />
- - G5 PCM not working because S/PDIF is selected by default, even if not connected.<br />
- - Coreaudio resampler doesn't handle input from lpcm decoder (the samples are too small).
-Status: Todo
-
-Task
-Difficulty: Hard
-Urgency: Normal
-Platform: any
-Description: Stream text subtitles
- Find a a way to stream text subtitles, in TS and in RTP.
- - Find an existing norm
- - Implement it
-(40% done) needs to be tested and validated
-Status: Assigned to fenrir
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-Task
-Difficulty: Easy
-Urgency: Normal
-Platform: any
-Description: Fix up text subtitles
-Currently the subtitle dialog boxes are out of date and not really useable. Also we need more files to test and verify the current support, and the rendering of the subs should be sped up quite a bit (issue with outlining?) Other issues should mostly be dealt with after the vout systems are improved.
-Status: Todo
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-Task
-Difficulty: Hard
-Urgency: Normal
-Platform: any
-Description: Rework spu decoder
- The spu decoder needs some serious work
- - Split/merge for dvd menu highlighting
- - Downscaling for divx/mkv etc
- - Chroma independence (YUVA ???)
- - .sub/.idx support
-Status: todo
-
-Task
-Difficulty: Hard
-Urgency: Normal
-Platform: any
-Description: RTSP server
-Full implementation of a RTSP server.
-Status: fenrir has some code
-
-Task
-Difficulty: Hard
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: any
-Description: Picture filters
-picture per picture chained filter system that also works on output streams
-Status: Todo
-
-Task
-Difficulty: Guru
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: any
-Description: Vout redesign
-- vout needs distinct splitting into vout_core, vout_window, pic_filter, vout_filter
-- needs 'assistence' vout windows (clone filters, goom) etc.
-- 4:3, 16:9, freeform Aspect Ratio
-- cropping and padding (do at OS level, but provide a core call to set it up and configure).
-- OSD at window resolution instead of video res (secondary vout channel)
-- a OSD needs to be bound to a vout stream (no subs on goom vout)
-- 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).
-Status: Todo
-
-Task
-Difficulty: Medium
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: any
-Description: SPU redesign
-- multiple subpicture channels
-- centralized rendering and use of chroma filters
-- centralized scaling support
-(also look at ogt/cvd sub work)
-Status: Todo
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-Task
-Difficulty: Guru
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: Mac OS X
-Description: intf / vout dependency
-The application specific parts of the intf need to be brougth to the VLC application core. A valid NSApplication needs to be created on VLC opening, with the dock and menu hidden/disabled, only being generated on VLC intf loading.
-(70% done) need to fix the interfaces again.<br />
-This is mostly implemented, but some mem leaks are now bothering the macosx part. this should be fixed.
-Status: Assigned to DJ
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-Task
-Difficulty: Guru
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: Mac OS X
-Description: skins2
-Port VLC skins to Objective C++ and OSX. Also requires the intf to be a dialog handler. Is slighly dependant on intf/vout dependency todoitem
-Status: Todo
-
-Task
-Difficulty: Hard
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: any
-Description: Equalizer Graphic control
-Now that VLC has an equalizer, we need a way to control it easily from the GUI.
-Status: Todo
-
-Task
-Difficulty: Hard
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: any
-Description: informing user.
-Implement a system to: <br />
- - Alert the user of critical errors (cannot play file). Should be blocking. <br />
- - Ask the user a question (Are you sure? or Try to Fix index of avi? or Overwrite File?)<br />
- - Inform the user, without disturbing him. (Buffering stream). This might require a time bases or something perhaps. Because how do we know how long this information should be displayed? Also think of buffering 0-100%<br />
-Status: Todo
-
-Task
-Difficulty: Hard
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: any
-Description: Full H323 Videoconferencing
-VLC isn't really suited for this yet, because it introduces quite large latencies. This should fixed before the H323 can ever come close to working in VLC.
-Status: Todo
-
-Task
-Difficulty: Guru
-Urgency: Normal
-Platform: Mac OS X
-Description: SVCD support
-libcdio needs to be ported to the Mac to support the cddax and vcdx modules for proper SVCD support
-Status: Todo
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-Task
-Difficulty: Hard
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: Mac OS X
-Description: QuickTime capturing
-Allow capturing from QuickTime Firewire, USB and PCI devices.
-Possibly see: <a href="http://bugzilla.videolan.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=416">Bug 416</a>
-Status: Todo
-
-Task
-Difficulty: Medium
-Urgency: Normal
-Platform: Mac OS X
-Description: Finish Mac Mozilla plugin
-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.
-Status: Halfway (stalled)
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-Task
-Difficulty: Easy
-Urgency: Normal
-Platform: any
-Description: Controlling the mozilla plugin
-The mozilla plugin needs to be better controllable (via javascript).
-- retrieve variable values.
-- open VLC media player
-- default html page to control the plugin
-- XUL controls
-(80% done) see:
-<a href="http://sierra.via.ecp.fr/~zorglub/vlc/plugin/vlc.html">Javascript controls</a>
-<a href="http://sierra.via.ecp.fr/~zorglub/vlc/xul/">XUL controls</a>
-Status: Assigned to zorglub
-
-Task
-Difficulty: Hard
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: Windows
-Description: ActiveX control for VLC
- We need an ActiveX version of VLC for IE intergration
-Status: Todo
-
-Task
-Difficulty: Easy
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: any
-Description: export paramaters of an input
- Export the Media Info of a file/source to a standard xml file for use by other applications. Possibly combine with file "probe'ing".
- - AR
- - size
- - bitrate
- - resolution
- - codecs, etc.
-Status: Todo
-
-Task
-Difficulty: Easy
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: any
-Description: SSL http
-SSL encrypted HTTP communication. To support protected VoD.
-Status: Todo
-
-Task
-Difficulty: Hard
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: any
-Description: http cookies
-For protected VoD (http://a-select.surfnet.nl)
-Status: Todo
-
-Task
-Difficulty: Easy
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: any
-Description: mime-type VLC launching
-Allow application/vlc mimetype to launch VLC instead of plugin for video file.
-Allows for Progressive download to TEMP folder from browsers. VLC would play the file in the TEMP.
-Status: Todo
-
-Task
-Difficulty: Hard
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: any
-Description: rendezvous announces
-DMAP protocol announce for videos.
-Status: Todo
-
-Task
-Difficulty: Easy
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: any
-Description: SDL vout cleaning
-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.
-Status: Todo
-
-Task
-Difficulty: Easy
-Urgency: Normal
-Platform: Win32/Linux
-Description: V4L and dshow tuning support
-We need an API that allows us to control the tuning of V4L and dshow TV cards.
-Status: Todo (CryHavoc)
-
-Task
-Difficulty: Easy
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: any
-Description: Electronic Program Guide
-Integrate a EPG system into VLC.
-Status: Todo (CryHavoc)
-
-Task
-Difficulty: Hard
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: any
-Description: a Time Shifting module
-This module should create TiVo like capabilities for VLC.
-Status: Todo (CryHavoc)
-
-Task
-Difficulty: Medium
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: any
-Description: UDP packet reordering
-Currently we ignore every packet that is too late and just wait for a fresh one.
-It would be nice to be able to reorder the packets in the buffer to prevent degredation of the signal.
-Status: Todo
-
-Task
-Difficulty: Easy
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: any
-Description: Make vlm more user friendly (setup etc)
-vlm is kinda a pain to setup if you are not entirely experiences with A/V and streaming or VLC for that matter. It can be heavily improved by updating the vlm http interface.
-Status: Todo
-
-Task
-Difficulty: Medium
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: any
-Description: Protocol rollover
-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.
-However, how spec compliant can this be?<br />
-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.
-Status: Todo
-
-Task
-Difficulty: Hard
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: any
-Description: NAT issues
-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 ????
-Protocol rollover can be a solution for a lot of these issues.
-Status: Todo
-
-Task
-Difficulty: Medium
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: any
-Description: Gstreamer and Helix API integration
-See if you can support GStreamer and helix plugins in one way or another.
-Status: Todo
-
-Task
-Difficulty: Easy
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: any
-Description: Gnome-vfs support
-For integration with smb, sftp and other file sharing/mounting methods
-Status: Todo
-
-# Do not remove me
-Task
+# VLC Todo\r
+# Difficulty values: Easy, Medium, Hard, Guru\r
+#\r
+# Urgency values: Wishlist, Normal, Important, Critical\r
+\r
+Task\r
+Difficulty: Easy\r
+Urgency: Critical\r
+Platform: any\r
+Description: World domination\r
+ We need to dominate the world\r
+Status: Todo\r
+\r
+Task\r
+Difficulty: Medium\r
+Platform: any\r
+Urgency: Wishlist\r
+Description: RAR/ZIP/... access\r
+ An access module that would be able to uncompress compressed files\r
+Status: Todo\r
+\r
+Task\r
+Difficulty: Easy\r
+Platform: any\r
+Urgency: Urgent\r
+Description: proper DVD controls\r
+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.\r
+Status: Todo\r
+\r
+Task\r
+Difficulty: Easy\r
+Platform: Linux, Win32\r
+Urgency: Normal\r
+Description: Streaming wizard\r
+ Finish the streaming wizard (85% finished)\r
+Status: Assigned to zorglub\r
+\r
+Task\r
+Difficulty: Easy\r
+Platform: all\r
+Urgency: Normal\r
+Description: configure overview of modules\r
+ configure should report what it will and what it won't build, after it is done running.\r
+Status: Todo\r
+\r
+Task\r
+Difficulty: Hard\r
+Platform: WinCE\r
+Urgency: Wishlist\r
+Description: WinCE port finalizing\r
+Sources need to be imported into the VLC source tree.\r
+Downloads should be added to the main vlc download page. We need an icon for this. \r
+Status: Assigned to MixerAnderson\r
+\r
+Task\r
+Difficulty: Hard\r
+Urgency: Normal\r
+Platform: any\r
+Description: Dual window in embed mode\r
+Windows ttaskbar reports two windows in the video embed mode.\r
+Status: Assigned to gibalou\r
+\r
+Task\r
+Difficulty: Easy\r
+Urgency: Normal\r
+Platform: any\r
+Description: Multichannel downmixing\r
+5:1 to Stereo proper downmixing\r
+Status: Todo\r
+\r
+Task\r
+Difficulty: Guru\r
+Platform: any\r
+Urgency: Normal\r
+Description: Demux2 transition\r
+ Complete the transition to demux2. Bughunting and finishing chapter support (80% done)\r
+Status: Assigned to fenrir\r
+\r
+Task\r
+Difficulty: Guru\r
+Urgency: Normal\r
+Platform: any\r
+Description: Multi-acccess\r
+ Allow several access from an input thread to allow for multi-input (30% done)\r
+Status: Assigned to fenrir\r
+\r
+Task\r
+Difficulty: Hard\r
+Urgency: Normal\r
+Platform: any\r
+Description: make everything UTF-8 based\r
+ 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.\r
+Status: Todo\r
+\r
+Task\r
+Difficulty: Medium\r
+Urgency: Wishlist\r
+Platform: any\r
+Description: no blocking primary interface\r
+Do away with the strange primary blocking interface. The first interface should be run in the same thread, but not be the blocking call. Load other interfaces in new threads.\r
+Status: Todo\r
+\r
+Task\r
+Difficulty: Medium\r
+Urgency: Wishlist\r
+Platform: any\r
+Description: OSD Icons\r
+ Make OSD Icons for Play/Pause/Stop. Integrate them better into the core system.\r
+Status: Assigned to yoann\r
+\r
+Task\r
+Difficulty: Medium\r
+Urgency: Wishlist\r
+Platform: any\r
+Description: Full blown OSD system \r
+ In the line of freevo etc.\r
+Status: Todo\r
+\r
+Task\r
+Difficulty: Medium\r
+Urgency: Normal\r
+Platform: any\r
+Description: Rewrite the SAP parser\r
+ The SAP parser is very dirty at the moment, and needs a complete rewrite.\r
+ - caching support\r
+Status: Assigned to zorglub\r
+\r
+Task\r
+Difficulty: Medium\r
+Urgency: Normal\r
+Platform: any\r
+Description: Tree playlist\r
+ A hierarchized playlist structure, eventually using a media library.\r
+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>\r
+Status: Assigned to zorglub\r
+\r
+Task\r
+Difficulty: Easy\r
+Urgency: Wishlist\r
+Platform: any\r
+Description: GSM decoder\r
+GSM decoder not based on standard reference sources.\r
+Status: Todo\r
+\r
+Task\r
+Difficulty: Easy\r
+Urgency: Wishlist\r
+Platform: any\r
+Description: MusePack decoder\r
+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.\r
+Status: Todo\r
+\r
+Task\r
+Difficulty: Easy\r
+Urgency: Normal\r
+Platform: any\r
+Description: 24 bit LPCM\r
+- Increasingly more DVDs use 24 bit LPCM sound. We should support it.\r
+Status: Todo\r
+\r
+Task\r
+Difficulty: Easy\r
+Urgency: Normal\r
+Platform: any\r
+Description: LPCM on mac\r
+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.\r
+Status: Todo\r
+\r
+Task\r
+Difficulty: Easy\r
+Urgency: Wishlist\r
+Platform: any\r
+Description: APE decoder\r
+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.\r
+Status: Todo\r
+\r
+Task\r
+Task\r
+Difficulty: Medium\r
+Urgency: Wishlist\r
+Platform: any\r
+Description: Closed Captions/Teletext support\r
+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.\r
+Perhaps look at Xawtv, dvbtext and other vbi, vtx systems.\r
+Status: Todo\r
+\r
+Task\r
+Difficulty: Medium\r
+Urgency: Wishlist\r
+Platform: any\r
+Description: DVB info in NIT\r
+We need to get the information of a DVB stream that are in the NIT (current program, next program, ...)\r
+Status: Todo\r
+\r
+Task\r
+Difficulty: Medium\r
+Urgency: Wishlist\r
+Platform: any\r
+Description: IceCast/ShoutCast serving\r
+This would be a nice thing for the sake of completeness of VLC's streaming capabilities.\r
+Status: Todo\r
+\r
+Task\r
+Difficulty: Hard\r
+Urgency: Normal\r
+Platform: Mac OS X\r
+Description: New OS X preferences\r
+ New preferences for Mac OS X. Current not suited for Mac Users and several\r
+Pref. elements are broken (hotkeys and int with string desc.).\r
+Status: Assigned to thedj\r
+\r
+Task\r
+Difficulty: Hard\r
+Urgency: Critical\r
+Platform: OSX\r
+Description: CoreAudio multichannel audio output.\r
+ Convert to <a href="http://www.mat.ucsb.edu:8000/CoreAudio/108">AUHAL</a> based sytem.\r
+Still no info over S/PDIF output available.\r
+Outstanding issues:<br />\r
+ - G5 S/PDIF not working<br />\r
+ - G5 PCM not working because S/PDIF is selected by default, even if not connected.<br />\r
+ - Coreaudio resampler doesn't handle input from lpcm decoder (the samples are too small).\r
+Status: Todo\r
+\r
+Task\r
+Difficulty: Hard\r
+Urgency: Normal\r
+Platform: any\r
+Description: Stream text subtitles\r
+ Find a a way to stream text subtitles, in TS and in RTP.\r
+ - Find an existing norm\r
+ - Implement it\r
+(40% done) needs to be tested and validated\r
+Status: Assigned to fenrir\r
+\r
+Task\r
+Difficulty: Easy\r
+Urgency: Normal\r
+Platform: any\r
+Description: Fix up text subtitles\r
+Currently the subtitle dialog boxes are out of date and not really useable. Also we need more files to test and verify the current support, and the rendering of the subs should be sped up quite a bit (issue with outlining?) Other issues should mostly be dealt with after the vout systems are improved.\r
+Status: Todo\r
+\r
+Task\r
+Difficulty: Hard\r
+Urgency: Normal\r
+Platform: any\r
+Description: Rework spu decoder\r
+ The spu decoder needs some serious work\r
+ - Split/merge for dvd menu highlighting\r
+ - Downscaling for divx/mkv etc\r
+ - Chroma independence (YUVA ???)\r
+ - .sub/.idx support\r
+Status: todo\r
+\r
+Task\r
+Difficulty: Hard\r
+Urgency: Normal\r
+Platform: any\r
+Description: RTSP server\r
+Full implementation of a RTSP server.\r
+Status: fenrir has some code\r
+\r
+Task\r
+Difficulty: Hard\r
+Urgency: Wishlist\r
+Platform: any\r
+Description: Picture filters\r
+picture per picture chained filter system that also works on output streams\r
+Status: Todo\r
+\r
+Task\r
+Difficulty: Guru\r
+Urgency: Wishlist\r
+Platform: any\r
+Description: Vout redesign\r
+- vout needs distinct splitting into vout_core, vout_window, pic_filter, vout_filter\r
+- needs 'assistence' vout windows (clone filters, goom) etc.\r
+- 4:3, 16:9, freeform Aspect Ratio\r
+- cropping and padding (do at OS level, but provide a core call to set it up and configure).\r
+- OSD at window resolution instead of video res (secondary vout channel)\r
+- a OSD needs to be bound to a vout stream (no subs on goom vout)\r
+- 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).\r
+Status: Todo\r
+\r
+Task\r
+Difficulty: Medium\r
+Urgency: Wishlist\r
+Platform: any\r
+Description: SPU redesign\r
+- multiple subpicture channels\r
+- centralized rendering and use of chroma filters\r
+- centralized scaling support\r
+(also look at ogt/cvd sub work)\r
+Status: Todo\r
+\r
+Task\r
+Difficulty: Guru\r
+Urgency: Wishlist\r
+Platform: Mac OS X\r
+Description: intf / vout dependency\r
+The application specific parts of the intf need to be brougth to the VLC application core. A valid NSApplication needs to be created on VLC opening, with the dock and menu hidden/disabled, only being generated on VLC intf loading.\r
+(70% done) need to fix the interfaces again.<br />\r
+This is mostly implemented, but some mem leaks are now bothering the macosx part. this should be fixed.\r
+Status: Assigned to DJ\r
+\r
+Task\r
+Difficulty: Guru\r
+Urgency: Wishlist\r
+Platform: Mac OS X\r
+Description: skins2\r
+Port VLC skins to Objective C++ and OSX. Also requires the intf to be a dialog handler. Is slighly dependant on intf/vout dependency todoitem\r
+Status: Todo\r
+\r
+Task\r
+Difficulty: Hard\r
+Urgency: Wishlist\r
+Platform: any\r
+Description: Equalizer Graphic control\r
+Now that VLC has an equalizer, we need a way to control it easily from the GUI.\r
+( Done in WX )\r
+Status: Todo\r
+\r
+Task\r
+Difficulty: Hard\r
+Urgency: Wishlist\r
+Platform: any\r
+Description: informing user.\r
+Implement a system to: <br />\r
+ - Alert the user of critical errors (cannot play file). Should be blocking. <br />\r
+ - Ask the user a question (Are you sure? or Try to Fix index of avi? or Overwrite File?)<br />\r
+ - Inform the user, without disturbing him. (Buffering stream). This might require a time bases or something perhaps. Because how do we know how long this information should be displayed? Also think of buffering 0-100%<br /> \r
+Status: Todo\r
+\r
+Task\r
+Difficulty: Hard\r
+Urgency: Wishlist\r
+Platform: any\r
+Description: Full H323 Videoconferencing\r
+VLC isn't really suited for this yet, because it introduces quite large latencies. This should fixed before the H323 can ever come close to working in VLC.\r
+Status: Todo\r
+\r
+Task\r
+Difficulty: Guru\r
+Urgency: Normal\r
+Platform: Mac OS X\r
+Description: SVCD support\r
+libcdio needs to be ported to the Mac to support the cddax and vcdx modules for proper SVCD support\r
+Status: Todo\r
+\r
+Task\r
+Difficulty: Hard \r
+Urgency: Wishlist\r
+Platform: Mac OS X\r
+Description: QuickTime capturing\r
+Allow capturing from QuickTime Firewire, USB and PCI devices.\r
+Possibly see: <a href="http://bugzilla.videolan.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=416">Bug 416</a>\r
+Status: Todo\r
+\r
+Task\r
+Difficulty: Medium\r
+Urgency: Normal\r
+Platform: Mac OS X\r
+Description: Finish Mac Mozilla plugin\r
+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. \r
+Status: Halfway (stalled)\r
+\r
+Task\r
+Difficulty: Easy\r
+Urgency: Normal\r
+Platform: any\r
+Description: Controlling the mozilla plugin\r
+The mozilla plugin needs to be better controllable (via javascript). \r
+- retrieve variable values.\r
+- open VLC media player\r
+- default html page to control the plugin\r
+- XUL controls\r
+(80% done) see:\r
+<a href="http://sierra.via.ecp.fr/~zorglub/vlc/plugin/vlc.html">Javascript controls</a>\r
+<a href="http://sierra.via.ecp.fr/~zorglub/vlc/xul/">XUL controls</a>\r
+Status: Assigned to zorglub\r
+\r
+Task\r
+Difficulty: Hard\r
+Urgency: Wishlist\r
+Platform: Windows\r
+Description: ActiveX control for VLC\r
+ We need an ActiveX version of VLC for IE intergration\r
+Status: Todo\r
+\r
+Task\r
+Difficulty: Easy\r
+Urgency: Wishlist\r
+Platform: any\r
+Description: export paramaters of an input\r
+ Export the Media Info of a file/source to a standard xml file for use by other applications. Possibly combine with file "probe'ing".\r
+ - AR\r
+ - size\r
+ - bitrate\r
+ - resolution\r
+ - codecs, etc.\r
+Status: Todo\r
+\r
+Task\r
+Difficulty: Easy\r
+Urgency: Wishlist\r
+Platform: any\r
+Description: SSL http\r
+SSL encrypted HTTP communication. To support protected VoD.\r
+Status: Todo\r
+\r
+Task\r
+Difficulty: Hard\r
+Urgency: Wishlist\r
+Platform: any\r
+Description: http cookies\r
+For protected VoD (http://a-select.surfnet.nl)\r
+Status: Todo\r
+\r
+Task\r
+Difficulty: Easy\r
+Urgency: Wishlist\r
+Platform: any\r
+Description: mime-type VLC launching\r
+Allow application/vlc mimetype to launch VLC instead of plugin for video file.\r
+Allows for Progressive download to TEMP folder from browsers. VLC would play the file in the TEMP.\r
+Status: Todo\r
+\r
+Task\r
+Difficulty: Hard\r
+Urgency: Wishlist\r
+Platform: any\r
+Description: rendezvous announces\r
+DMAP protocol announce for videos.\r
+Status: Todo\r
+\r
+Task\r
+Difficulty: Easy\r
+Urgency: Wishlist\r
+Platform: any\r
+Description: SDL vout cleaning\r
+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.\r
+Status: Todo\r
+\r
+Task\r
+Difficulty: Easy\r
+Urgency: Normal\r
+Platform: Win32/Linux\r
+Description: V4L and dshow tuning support\r
+We need an API that allows us to control the tuning of V4L and dshow TV cards.\r
+Status: Todo (CryHavoc)\r
+\r
+Task\r
+Difficulty: Easy\r
+Urgency: Wishlist\r
+Platform: any\r
+Description: Electronic Program Guide\r
+Integrate a EPG system into VLC.\r
+Status: Todo (CryHavoc)\r
+\r
+Task\r
+Difficulty: Hard\r
+Urgency: Wishlist\r
+Platform: any\r
+Description: a Time Shifting module\r
+This module should create TiVo like capabilities for VLC.\r
+Status: Todo (CryHavoc)\r
+\r
+Task\r
+Difficulty: Medium\r
+Urgency: Wishlist\r
+Platform: any\r
+Description: UDP packet reordering\r
+Currently we ignore every packet that is too late and just wait for a fresh one.\r
+It would be nice to be able to reorder the packets in the buffer to prevent degredation of the signal.\r
+Status: Todo\r
+\r
+Task\r
+Difficulty: Easy\r
+Urgency: Wishlist\r
+Platform: any\r
+Description: Make vlm more user friendly (setup etc)\r
+vlm is kinda a pain to setup if you are not entirely experiences with A/V and streaming or VLC for that matter. It can be heavily improved by updating the vlm http interface.\r
+Status: Todo\r
+\r
+Task\r
+Difficulty: Medium\r
+Urgency: Wishlist\r
+Platform: any\r
+Description: Protocol rollover\r
+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.\r
+However, how spec compliant can this be?<br />\r
+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.\r
+Status: Todo\r
+\r
+Task\r
+Difficulty: Hard\r
+Urgency: Wishlist\r
+Platform: any\r
+Description: NAT issues\r
+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 ????\r
+Protocol rollover can be a solution for a lot of these issues.\r
+Status: Todo\r
+\r
+Task\r
+Difficulty: Medium\r
+Urgency: Wishlist\r
+Platform: any\r
+Description: Gstreamer and Helix API integration\r
+See if you can support GStreamer and helix plugins in one way or another.\r
+Status: Todo\r
+\r
+Task\r
+Difficulty: Easy\r
+Urgency: Wishlist\r
+Platform: any\r
+Description: Gnome-vfs support\r
+For integration with smb, sftp and other file sharing/mounting methods\r
+Status: Todo\r
+\r
+# Do not remove me\r
+Task\r
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