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: RAR/ZIP/... access
19 An access module that would be able to uncompress compressed files
26 Description: proper DVD controls
27 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.
32 Platform: Linux, Win32
34 Description: Streaming wizard
35 Finish the streaming wizard (85% finished)
36 Status: Assigned to zorglub
42 Description: configure overview of modules
43 configure should report what it will and what it won't build, after it is done running.
50 Description: WinCE port
51 A WinCE port for PocketPC and the likes. (95% finished)
52 Status: Assigned to MixerAnderson
58 Description: Embedded video outputs
59 Embedded video outputs support
60 Status: Assigned to gibalou
66 Description: Multichannel downmixing
67 5:1 to Stereo proper downmixing
74 Description: Demux2 transition
75 Complete the transition to demux2. Bughunting and finishing chapter support (80% done)
76 Status: Assigned to fenrir
82 Description: Multi-acccess
83 Allow several access from an input thread to allow for multi-input (30% done)
84 Status: Assigned to fenrir
90 Description: make everything UTF-8 based
91 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.
98 Description: no blocking primary interface
99 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.
106 Description: OSD Icons
107 Make OSD Icons for Play/Pause/Stop. Integrate them better into the core system.
108 Status: Assigned to yoann
114 Description: Full blown OSD system
115 In the line of freevo etc.
122 Description: Rewrite the SAP parser
123 The SAP parser is very dirty at the moment, and needs a complete rewrite.
131 Description: Tree playlist
132 A hierarchized playlist structure, eventually using a media library.
133 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>
140 Description: GSM decoder
141 GSM decoder not based on standard reference sources.
148 Description: MusePack decoder
149 Need I say more? <a href="http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?showtopic=21775&">MPCdec</a>
156 Description: 24 bit LPCM
157 - Increasingly more DVDs use 24 bit LPCM sound. We should support it.
164 Description: APE decoder
165 Need I say more? <a href="http://www.monkeysaudio.com/">Monkeys Audio (APE)</a> website.
173 Description: Closed Captions/Teletext support
174 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.
175 Perhaps look at Xawtv, dvbtext and other vbi, vtx systems.
182 Description: DVB info in NIT
183 We need to get the information of a DVB stream that are in the NIT (current program, next program, ...)
190 Description: IceCast/ShoutCast serving
191 This would be a nice thing for the sake of completeness of VLC's streaming capabilities.
198 Description: New OS X preferences
199 New preferences for Mac OS X. Current not suited for Mac Users and several
200 Pref. elements are broken (hotkeys and int with string desc.).
201 Status: Assigned to thedj
207 Description: CoreAudio multichannel audio output.
208 Convert to <a href="http://www.mat.ucsb.edu:8000/CoreAudio/108">AUHAL</a> based sytem.
209 Still no info over S/PDIF output available.
210 Outstanding issues:<br />
211 - G5 S/PDIF not working<br />
212 - G5 PCM not working because S/PDIF is selected by default, even if not connected.<br />
213 - Coreaudio resampler doesn't handle input from lpcm decoder (the samples are too small).
220 Description: Stream text subtitles
221 Find a a way to stream text subtitles, in TS and in RTP.
222 - Find an existing norm
224 (40% done) needs to be tested and validated
225 Status: Assigned to fenrir
231 Description: Fix up text subtitles
232 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.
240 Description: Rework spu decoder
241 The spu decoder needs some serious work
242 - Split/merge for dvd menu highlighting
243 - Downscaling for divx/mkv etc
244 - Chroma independence
252 Description: RTSP server
253 Full implementation of a RTSP server.
254 Status: fenrir has some code
260 Description: Picture filters
261 picture per picture chained filter system that also works on output streams
268 Description: Vout redesign
269 - vout needs distinct splitting into vout_core, vout_window, pic_filter, vout_filter
270 - needs 'assistence' vout windows (clone filters, goom) etc.
271 - 4:3, 16:9, freeform Aspect Ratio
272 - cropping and padding (do at OS level, but provide a core call to set it up and configure).
273 - OSD at window resolution instead of video res (secondary vout channel)
274 - a OSD needs to be bound to a vout stream (no subs on goom vout)
275 - 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).
282 Description: SPU redesign
283 - multiple subpicture channels
284 - centralized rendering and use of chroma filters
285 - centralized scaling support
286 (also look at ogt/cvd sub work)
293 Description: intf / vout dependency
294 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.
295 (70% done) need to fix the interfaces again.
296 Status: Assigned to DJ
303 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
310 Description: Equalizer
311 Implement an equilizer for VLC.
318 Description: informing user.
319 Implement a system to
320 - Alert the user of critical errors (cannot play file)
321 - Ask the user a question (Are you sure? or Try to Fix index of avi? or Overwrite File?)
322 - Inform the user, without disturbing him. (Buffering stream)
329 Description: Full H323 Videoconferencing
330 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.
337 Description: SVCD support
338 libcdio needs to be ported to the Mac to support the cddax and vcdx modules for proper SVCD support
345 Description: QuickTime capturing
346 Allow capturing from QuickTime Firewire, USB and PCI devices.
347 Possibly see: <a href="http://bugzilla.videolan.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=416">Bug 416</a>
354 Description: Finish Mac Mozilla plugin
355 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.
356 Status: Halfway (stalled)
362 Description: Controlling the mozilla plugin
363 The mozilla plugin needs to be better controllable (via javascript).
364 - retrieve variable values.
365 - open VLC media player
366 - default html page to control the plugin
369 <a href="http://sierra.via.ecp.fr/~zorglub/vlc/plugin/vlc.html">Javascript controls</a>
370 <a href="http://sierra.via.ecp.fr/~zorglub/vlc/xul/">XUL controls</a>
371 Status: Assigned to zorglub
377 Description: ActiveX control for VLC
378 We need an ActiveX version of VLC for IE intergration
385 Description: export paramaters of an input
386 Export the Media Info of a file/source to a standard xml file for use by other applications. Possibly combine with file "probe'ing".
398 Description: SSL http
399 SSL encrypted HTTP communication. To support protected VoD.
406 Description: http cookies
407 For protected VoD (http://a-select.surfnet.nl)
414 Description: mime-type VLC launching
415 Allow application/vlc mimetype to launch VLC instead of plugin for video file.
416 Allows for Progressive download to TEMP folder from browsers. VLC would play the file in the TEMP.
423 Description: rendezvous announces
424 DMAP protocol announce for videos.
431 Description: SDL vout cleaning
432 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.
438 Platform: Win32/Linux
439 Description: V4L and dshow tuning support
440 We need an API that allows us to control the tuning of V4L and dshow TV cards.
441 Status: Todo (CryHavoc)
447 Description: Electronic Program Guide
448 Integrate a EPG system into VLC.
449 Status: Todo (CryHavoc)
455 Description: a Time Shifting module
456 This module should create TiVo like capabilities for VLC.
457 Status: Todo (CryHavoc)
463 Description: UDP packet reordering
464 Currently we ignore every packet that is too late and just wait for a fresh one.
465 It would be nice to be able to reorder the packets in the buffer to prevent degredation of the signal.
472 Description: Make vlm more user friendly (setup etc)
473 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.
480 Description: Protocol rollover
481 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.
482 However, how spec compliant can this be?
489 Description: NAT issues
490 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 ????
497 Description: Gstreamer and Helix API integration
498 See if you can support GStreamer and helix plugins in one way or another.
505 Description: Gnome-vfs support
506 For integration with smb, sftp and other file sharing/mounting methods
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