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: RAR/ZIP/... access
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19 An access module that would be able to uncompress compressed files.
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26 Description: DVTS support
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27 DV over RTP support. See <a href="http://www.sfc.wide.ad.jp/DVTS/">DVTS homepage</a>
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36 Description: proper DVD controls
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37 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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42 Platform: Linux, Win32, Mac OS X
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44 Description: Streaming wizard
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45 Finish the streaming wizard (85% finished)<br />
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46 The mac version is at 0%
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47 Status: Assigned to zorglub
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53 Description: configure overview of modules
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54 configure should report what it will and what it won't build, after it is done running.
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61 Description: WinCE port finalizing
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62 Sources need to be imported into the VLC source tree.
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63 Downloads should be added to the main vlc download page. We need an icon for this.
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64 Status: Assigned to MixerAnderson
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70 Description: Dual window in embed mode
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71 Windows taskbar reports two windows in the video embed mode.
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72 Status: Assigned to gibalou
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78 Description: Multichannel downmixing
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79 5:1 to Stereo proper downmixing
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86 Description: External audio file playing
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87 Allow several access from an input thread to allow for multi-input (30% done)
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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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113 Status: Assigned to zorglub
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119 Description: Tree playlist
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120 A hierarchized playlist structure, eventually using a media library.
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121 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>
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122 Status: Assigned to zorglub
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128 Description: fix ASX playlist parser
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129 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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136 Description: fix current muxers.
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137 Our avi and mov muxer don't produce valid files
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145 Description: GSM decoder
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146 The <a href="http://kbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/~jutta/toast.html">Toast</a> implementation.
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153 Description: AMR decoder
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154 We will need to find one that isn't based on the reference code.
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161 Description: MusePack decoder
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162 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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169 Description: 24 bit LPCM
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170 - Increasingly more DVDs use 24 bit LPCM sound. We should support it.
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178 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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185 Description: APE decoder
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186 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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193 Description: flash video playing/streaming
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194 A flash video muxer and demuxer. FFMPEG can already output flash video. a wast not to make use of that capability.
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201 Description: Closed Captions/Teletext support
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202 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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203 Perhaps look at Xawtv, dvbtext and other vbi, vtx systems.
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210 Description: DVB info in NIT
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211 We need to get the information of a DVB stream that are in the NIT (current program, next program, ...)
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218 Description: IceCast/ShoutCast serving
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219 This would be a nice thing for the sake of completeness of VLC's streaming capabilities.
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226 Description: New OS X preferences
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227 New preferences for Mac OS X. Current not suited for Mac Users and several
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228 Pref. elements are broken (hotkeys and int with string desc.).
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235 Description: OS X bookmarks window
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236 We miss a bookmarks window like the wxwidget one.
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243 Description: CoreAudio multichannel audio output.
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244 Convert to <a href="http://www.mat.ucsb.edu:8000/CoreAudio/108">AUHAL</a> based sytem.
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245 Still no info over S/PDIF output available.
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246 Outstanding issues:<br />
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247 - G5 S/PDIF not working<br />
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248 - G5 PCM not working because S/PDIF is selected by default, even if not connected.<br />
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255 Description: Stream text subtitles
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256 Find a a way to stream text subtitles, in TS and in RTP.
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257 - Find an existing norm
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259 <br />Needs testing and validating
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260 Status: 65% (fenrir)
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266 Description: RTSP server
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267 Full implementation of a RTSP server.
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274 Description: Add VoD module for VLM
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275 Add a VoD module for VLM, so that we can create a RTSP server that can
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276 provide unicast RTSP sessions upon contacting the VoD module. See the following
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277 <a href="http://via.ecp.fr/via/ml/streaming/200408/msg00082.html">mail</a>.
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284 Description: More Picture filters
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285 There are several picture filters (blend, scale), but we can use more
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292 Description: Vout redesign
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293 - vout needs distinct splitting into vout_core, vout_window, pic_filter, vout_filter
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294 - needs 'assistence' vout windows (clone filters, goom) etc.
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295 - 4:3, 16:9, freeform Aspect Ratio
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296 - cropping and padding (do at OS level, but provide a core call to set it up and configure).
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297 - OSD at window resolution instead of video res (secondary vout channel)
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298 - a OSD needs to be bound to a vout stream (no subs on goom vout)
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299 - 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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306 Description: Subtitle work
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307 - better SSA support with postioning, colors etc.
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308 - VobSub tracks support
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309 - Fix subtitles dialogs
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316 Description: Automatic charset recognition
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317 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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324 Description: skins2
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325 Port VLC skins to Objective C++ and OSX. Also requires the intf to be a dialog handler.
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332 Description: informing user.
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333 Implement a system to: <br />
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334 - Alert the user of critical errors (cannot play file). Should be blocking. <br />
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335 - Ask the user a question (Are you sure? or Try to Fix index of avi? or Overwrite File?)<br />
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336 - 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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343 Description: Full H323 Videoconferencing
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344 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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345 We also will need SIP support.
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352 Description: SVCD support
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353 libcdio needs to be ported to the Mac to support the cddax and vcdx modules for proper SVCD support
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360 Description: QuickTime capturing
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361 Allow capturing from QuickTime Firewire, USB and PCI devices.
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362 Possibly see: <a href="http://bugzilla.videolan.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=416">Bug 416</a>
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369 Description: Finish Mac Mozilla plugin
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370 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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371 Status: Halfway (stalled)
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377 Description: Controlling the mozilla plugin
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378 The mozilla plugin needs to be better controllable (via javascript).
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379 - retrieve variable values.
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380 - open VLC media player
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381 - default html page to control the plugin
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384 <a href="http://sierra.via.ecp.fr/~zorglub/vlc/plugin/vlc.html">Javascript controls</a>
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385 <a href="http://sierra.via.ecp.fr/~zorglub/vlc/xul/">XUL controls</a>
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386 <a href="http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/">MPlayer Mozilla plugin</a>
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387 Status: Assigned to zorglub
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393 Description: ActiveX control for VLC
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394 We need an ActiveX version of VLC for IE intergration
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401 Description: export paramaters of an input
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402 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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407 - codecs, etc.<br />
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414 Description: SSL http
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415 SSL encrypted HTTP communication. To support protected VoD.<br />
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416 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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423 Description: http cookies
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424 For protected VoD (http://a-select.surfnet.nl)
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431 Description: mime-type VLC launching
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432 Allow application/vlc mimetype to launch VLC instead of plugin for video file.
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433 Allows for Progressive download to TEMP folder from browsers. VLC would play the file in the TEMP.
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440 Description: rendezvous announces
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441 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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442 DMAP protocol announce for videos.
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449 Description: SDL vout cleaning
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450 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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456 Platform: Win32/Linux
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457 Description: V4L and dshow tuning support
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458 We need an API that allows us to control the tuning of V4L and dshow TV cards.
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459 Status: Todo (CryHavoc)
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465 Description: Electronic Program Guide
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466 Integrate a EPG system into VLC.
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467 Status: Todo (CryHavoc)
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473 Description: a Time Shifting module
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474 This module should create TiVo like capabilities for VLC.
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475 Status: Todo (CryHavoc)
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481 Description: UDP packet reordering
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482 Currently we ignore every packet that is too late and just wait for a fresh one.
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483 It would be nice to be able to reorder the packets in the buffer to prevent degredation of the signal.
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490 Description: Make vlm more user friendly (setup etc)
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491 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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498 Description: Protocol rollover
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499 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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500 However, how spec compliant can this be?<br />
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501 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.
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508 Description: NAT issues
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509 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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510 Protocol rollover can be a solution for a lot of these issues.
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511 Use full DNS names in SDP
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518 Description: Gstreamer and Helix API integration
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519 See if you can support GStreamer and helix plugins in one way or another.
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526 Description: Gnome-vfs support
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527 For integration with smb, sftp and other file sharing/mounting methods
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534 Description: Update matroska demux
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542 Description: Matroska muxer
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549 Description: TTA decoder
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550 TTA is said to be a fast en good lossless codec. Opensource library
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551 availabe: http://tta.corecodec.org/
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558 Description: Option to automatically deinterlace when needed
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559 Mkv stores wether a video track is interlaced in the traxk descriptor
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560 libmpeg2 etc output this information on a per-picture bases
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