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: proper DVD controls
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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.
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32 Platform: Linux, Win32
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34 Description: Streaming wizard
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35 Finish the streaming wizard (85% finished)
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36 Status: Assigned to zorglub
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42 Description: configure overview of modules
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43 configure should report what it will and what it won't build, after it is done running.
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50 Description: WinCE port finalizing
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51 Sources need to be imported into the VLC source tree.
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52 Downloads should be added to the main vlc download page. We need an icon for this.
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53 Status: Assigned to MixerAnderson
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59 Description: Dual window in embed mode
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60 Windows ttaskbar reports two windows in the video embed mode.
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61 Status: Assigned to gibalou
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67 Description: Multichannel downmixing
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68 5:1 to Stereo proper downmixing
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75 Description: Demux2 transition
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76 Complete the transition to demux2. Bughunting and finishing chapter support (80% done)
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77 Status: Assigned to fenrir
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83 Description: Multi-acccess
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84 Allow several access from an input thread to allow for multi-input (30% done)
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85 Status: Assigned to fenrir
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91 Description: make everything UTF-8 based
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92 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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99 Description: OSD Icons
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100 Make OSD Icons for Play/Pause/Stop. Integrate them better into the core system.
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101 Status: Assigned to yoann
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107 Description: Full blown OSD system
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108 In the line of freevo etc.
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115 Description: Rewrite the SAP parser
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116 The SAP parser is very dirty at the moment, and needs a complete rewrite.
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118 Status: Assigned to zorglub
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124 Description: Tree playlist
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125 A hierarchized playlist structure, eventually using a media library.
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126 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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127 Status: Assigned to zorglub
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133 Description: GSM decoder
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134 GSM decoder not based on standard reference sources.
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141 Description: MusePack decoder
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142 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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149 Description: 24 bit LPCM
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150 - Increasingly more DVDs use 24 bit LPCM sound. We should support it.
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157 Description: LPCM on mac
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158 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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165 Description: APE decoder
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166 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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173 Description: flash video muxer
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174 A flash video muxer. FFMPEG can already output flash video. a wast not to make use of that capability.
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182 Description: Closed Captions/Teletext support
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183 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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184 Perhaps look at Xawtv, dvbtext and other vbi, vtx systems.
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191 Description: DVB info in NIT
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192 We need to get the information of a DVB stream that are in the NIT (current program, next program, ...)
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199 Description: IceCast/ShoutCast serving
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200 This would be a nice thing for the sake of completeness of VLC's streaming capabilities.
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207 Description: New OS X preferences
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208 New preferences for Mac OS X. Current not suited for Mac Users and several
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209 Pref. elements are broken (hotkeys and int with string desc.).
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210 Status: Assigned to thedj
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216 Description: CoreAudio multichannel audio output.
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217 Convert to <a href="http://www.mat.ucsb.edu:8000/CoreAudio/108">AUHAL</a> based sytem.
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218 Still no info over S/PDIF output available.
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219 Outstanding issues:<br />
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220 - G5 S/PDIF not working<br />
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221 - G5 PCM not working because S/PDIF is selected by default, even if not connected.<br />
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222 - Coreaudio resampler doesn't handle input from lpcm decoder (the samples are too small).
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229 Description: Stream text subtitles
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230 Find a a way to stream text subtitles, in TS and in RTP.
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231 - Find an existing norm
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233 (40% done) needs to be tested and validated
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234 Status: Assigned to fenrir
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240 Description: Fix up text subtitles
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241 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. Other issues should mostly be dealt with after the vout systems are improved. For SSA support positioning and color needs to be added for instance.
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248 Description: Rework spu decoder
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249 The spu decoder needs some serious work
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250 - Split/merge for dvd menu highlighting
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251 - Downscaling for divx/mkv etc
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252 - Chroma independence (YUVA ???)
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253 - .sub/.idx support
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260 Description: RTSP server
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261 Full implementation of a RTSP server.
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262 Status: fenrir has some code
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268 Description: Picture filters
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269 picture per picture chained filter system that also works on output streams
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276 Description: Vout redesign
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277 - vout needs distinct splitting into vout_core, vout_window, pic_filter, vout_filter
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278 - needs 'assistence' vout windows (clone filters, goom) etc.
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279 - 4:3, 16:9, freeform Aspect Ratio
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280 - cropping and padding (do at OS level, but provide a core call to set it up and configure).
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281 - OSD at window resolution instead of video res (secondary vout channel)
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282 - a OSD needs to be bound to a vout stream (no subs on goom vout)
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283 - 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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290 Description: SPU redesign
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291 - multiple subpicture channels
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292 - centralized rendering and use of chroma filters
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293 - centralized scaling support
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294 (also look at ogt/cvd sub work)
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301 Description: intf / vout dependency
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302 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.
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303 (70% done) need to fix the interfaces again.<br />
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304 This is mostly implemented, but some mem leaks are now bothering the macosx part. this should be fixed.
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305 Status: Assigned to DJ
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311 Description: skins2
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312 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
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319 Description: Equalizer Graphic control
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320 Now that VLC has an equalizer, we need a way to control it easily from the GUI.
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328 Description: informing user.
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329 Implement a system to: <br />
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330 - Alert the user of critical errors (cannot play file). Should be blocking. <br />
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331 - Ask the user a question (Are you sure? or Try to Fix index of avi? or Overwrite File?)<br />
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332 - 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 />
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339 Description: Full H323 Videoconferencing
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340 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.
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347 Description: SVCD support
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348 libcdio needs to be ported to the Mac to support the cddax and vcdx modules for proper SVCD support
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355 Description: QuickTime capturing
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356 Allow capturing from QuickTime Firewire, USB and PCI devices.
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357 Possibly see: <a href="http://bugzilla.videolan.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=416">Bug 416</a>
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364 Description: Finish Mac Mozilla plugin
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365 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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366 Status: Halfway (stalled)
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372 Description: Controlling the mozilla plugin
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373 The mozilla plugin needs to be better controllable (via javascript).
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374 - retrieve variable values.
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375 - open VLC media player
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376 - default html page to control the plugin
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379 <a href="http://sierra.via.ecp.fr/~zorglub/vlc/plugin/vlc.html">Javascript controls</a>
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380 <a href="http://sierra.via.ecp.fr/~zorglub/vlc/xul/">XUL controls</a>
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381 Status: Assigned to zorglub
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387 Description: ActiveX control for VLC
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388 We need an ActiveX version of VLC for IE intergration
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395 Description: export paramaters of an input
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396 Export the Media Info of a file/source to a standard xml file for use by other applications. Possibly combine with file "probe'ing".
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408 Description: SSL http
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409 SSL encrypted HTTP communication. To support protected VoD.
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416 Description: http cookies
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417 For protected VoD (http://a-select.surfnet.nl)
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424 Description: mime-type VLC launching
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425 Allow application/vlc mimetype to launch VLC instead of plugin for video file.
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426 Allows for Progressive download to TEMP folder from browsers. VLC would play the file in the TEMP.
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433 Description: rendezvous announces
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434 DMAP protocol announce for videos.
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441 Description: SDL vout cleaning
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442 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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448 Platform: Win32/Linux
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449 Description: V4L and dshow tuning support
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450 We need an API that allows us to control the tuning of V4L and dshow TV cards.
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451 Status: Todo (CryHavoc)
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457 Description: Electronic Program Guide
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458 Integrate a EPG system into VLC.
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459 Status: Todo (CryHavoc)
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465 Description: a Time Shifting module
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466 This module should create TiVo like capabilities for VLC.
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467 Status: Todo (CryHavoc)
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473 Description: UDP packet reordering
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474 Currently we ignore every packet that is too late and just wait for a fresh one.
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475 It would be nice to be able to reorder the packets in the buffer to prevent degredation of the signal.
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482 Description: Make vlm more user friendly (setup etc)
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483 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.
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490 Description: Protocol rollover
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491 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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492 However, how spec compliant can this be?<br />
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493 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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500 Description: NAT issues
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501 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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502 Protocol rollover can be a solution for a lot of these issues.
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509 Description: Gstreamer and Helix API integration
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510 See if you can support GStreamer and helix plugins in one way or another.
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517 Description: Gnome-vfs support
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518 For integration with smb, sftp and other file sharing/mounting methods
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