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, Mac
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34 Description: Streaming wizard
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35 Finish the streaming wizard (85% finished)<br />
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36 The mac version is at 0%
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37 Status: Assigned to zorglub
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43 Description: configure overview of modules
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44 configure should report what it will and what it won't build, after it is done running.
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51 Description: WinCE port finalizing
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52 Sources need to be imported into the VLC source tree.
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53 Downloads should be added to the main vlc download page. We need an icon for this.
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54 Status: Assigned to MixerAnderson
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60 Description: Dual window in embed mode
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61 Windows taskbar reports two windows in the video embed mode.
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62 Status: Assigned to gibalou
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68 Description: Multichannel downmixing
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69 5:1 to Stereo proper downmixing
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76 Description: External audio file playin
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77 Allow several access from an input thread to allow for multi-input (30% done)
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78 Status: Assigned to fenrir
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84 Description: make everything UTF-8 based
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85 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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92 Description: Full blown OSD system
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93 In the line of freevo etc.
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100 Description: Rewrite the SAP parser
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101 The SAP parser is very dirty at the moment, and needs a complete rewrite.
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103 Status: Assigned to zorglub
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109 Description: Tree playlist
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110 A hierarchized playlist structure, eventually using a media library.
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111 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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112 Status: Assigned to zorglub
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118 Description: GSM decoder
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119 The <a href="http://kbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/~jutta/toast.html">Toast</a> implementation.
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126 Description: AMR decoder
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127 We will need to find one that isn't based on the reference code.
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134 Description: MusePack decoder
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135 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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142 Description: 24 bit LPCM
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143 - Increasingly more DVDs use 24 bit LPCM sound. We should support it.
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151 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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158 Description: APE decoder
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159 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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166 Description: flash video playing/streaming
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167 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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174 Description: Closed Captions/Teletext support
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175 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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176 Perhaps look at Xawtv, dvbtext and other vbi, vtx systems.
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183 Description: DVB info in NIT
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184 We need to get the information of a DVB stream that are in the NIT (current program, next program, ...)
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191 Description: IceCast/ShoutCast serving
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192 This would be a nice thing for the sake of completeness of VLC's streaming capabilities.
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199 Description: New OS X preferences
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200 New preferences for Mac OS X. Current not suited for Mac Users and several
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201 Pref. elements are broken (hotkeys and int with string desc.).
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208 Description: OS X bookmarks window
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209 We miss a bookmarks window like the wxwidget one.
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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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228 Description: Stream text subtitles
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229 Find a a way to stream text subtitles, in TS and in RTP.
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230 - Find an existing norm
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232 <br />Needs testing and validating
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233 Status: 65% (fenrir)
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239 Description: RTSP server
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240 Full implementation of a RTSP server.
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247 Description: Add VoD module for VLM
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248 Add a VoD module for VLM, so that we can create a RTSP server that can
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249 provide unicast RTSP sessions upon contacting the VoD module. See the following
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250 <a href="http://via.ecp.fr/via/ml/streaming/200408/msg00082.html">mail</a>.
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257 Description: More Picture filters
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258 There are several picture filters (blend, scale), but we can use more
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265 Description: Vout redesign
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266 - vout needs distinct splitting into vout_core, vout_window, pic_filter, vout_filter
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267 - needs 'assistence' vout windows (clone filters, goom) etc.
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268 - 4:3, 16:9, freeform Aspect Ratio
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269 - cropping and padding (do at OS level, but provide a core call to set it up and configure).
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270 - OSD at window resolution instead of video res (secondary vout channel)
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271 - a OSD needs to be bound to a vout stream (no subs on goom vout)
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272 - 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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279 Description: Subtitle work
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280 - scaling support (mostly for Vobsub with avi/mkv)
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281 - better SSA support with postioning, colors etc.
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282 - VobSub tracks support
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283 - Fix subtitles dialogs
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290 Description: skins2
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291 Port VLC skins to Objective C++ and OSX. Also requires the intf to be a dialog handler.
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298 Description: informing user.
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299 Implement a system to: <br />
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300 - Alert the user of critical errors (cannot play file). Should be blocking. <br />
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301 - Ask the user a question (Are you sure? or Try to Fix index of avi? or Overwrite File?)<br />
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302 - 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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309 Description: Full H323 Videoconferencing
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310 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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311 We also will need SIP support.
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318 Description: SVCD support
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319 libcdio needs to be ported to the Mac to support the cddax and vcdx modules for proper SVCD support
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326 Description: QuickTime capturing
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327 Allow capturing from QuickTime Firewire, USB and PCI devices.
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328 Possibly see: <a href="http://bugzilla.videolan.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=416">Bug 416</a>
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335 Description: Finish Mac Mozilla plugin
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336 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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337 Status: Halfway (stalled)
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343 Description: Controlling the mozilla plugin
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344 The mozilla plugin needs to be better controllable (via javascript).
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345 - retrieve variable values.
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346 - open VLC media player
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347 - default html page to control the plugin
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350 <a href="http://sierra.via.ecp.fr/~zorglub/vlc/plugin/vlc.html">Javascript controls</a>
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351 <a href="http://sierra.via.ecp.fr/~zorglub/vlc/xul/">XUL controls</a>
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352 Status: Assigned to zorglub
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358 Description: ActiveX control for VLC
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359 We need an ActiveX version of VLC for IE intergration
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366 Description: export paramaters of an input
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367 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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372 - codecs, etc.<br />
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379 Description: SSL http
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380 SSL encrypted HTTP communication. To support protected VoD.<br />
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381 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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388 Description: http cookies
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389 For protected VoD (http://a-select.surfnet.nl)
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396 Description: mime-type VLC launching
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397 Allow application/vlc mimetype to launch VLC instead of plugin for video file.
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398 Allows for Progressive download to TEMP folder from browsers. VLC would play the file in the TEMP.
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405 Description: rendezvous announces
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406 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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407 DMAP protocol announce for videos.
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414 Description: SDL vout cleaning
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415 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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421 Platform: Win32/Linux
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422 Description: V4L and dshow tuning support
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423 We need an API that allows us to control the tuning of V4L and dshow TV cards.
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424 Status: Todo (CryHavoc)
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430 Description: Electronic Program Guide
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431 Integrate a EPG system into VLC.
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432 Status: Todo (CryHavoc)
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438 Description: a Time Shifting module
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439 This module should create TiVo like capabilities for VLC.
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440 Status: Todo (CryHavoc)
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446 Description: UDP packet reordering
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447 Currently we ignore every packet that is too late and just wait for a fresh one.
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448 It would be nice to be able to reorder the packets in the buffer to prevent degredation of the signal.
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455 Description: Make vlm more user friendly (setup etc)
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456 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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463 Description: Protocol rollover
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464 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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465 However, how spec compliant can this be?<br />
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466 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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473 Description: NAT issues
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474 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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475 Protocol rollover can be a solution for a lot of these issues.
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476 Use full DNS names in SDP
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483 Description: Gstreamer and Helix API integration
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484 See if you can support GStreamer and helix plugins in one way or another.
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491 Description: Gnome-vfs support
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492 For integration with smb, sftp and other file sharing/mounting methods
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499 Description: Update matroska demux
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508 Description: Matroska muxer
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