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: Clock Synchro redesign
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19 We need to adapt the clock synchro to work better with BOTH files and streams.
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26 Description: CoreAudio multichannel audio output.
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27 Convert to <a href="http://www.mat.ucsb.edu:8000/CoreAudio/108">AUHAL</a> based sytem.
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28 Still no info over S/PDIF output available.
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29 Outstanding issues:<br />
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30 - G5 S/PDIF not working<br />
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31 - G5 PCM not working because S/PDIF is selected by default, even if not connected.<br />
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38 Description: Update matroska demux
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46 Description: proper DVD controls
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47 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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52 Platform: Linux, Win32, Mac OS X
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54 Description: Streaming wizard
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55 Finish the streaming wizard (85% finished)<br />
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56 The mac version is at 0%
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57 Status: Assigned to zorglub
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63 Description: configure overview of modules
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64 configure should report what it will and what it won't build, after it is done running.
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71 Description: Dual window in embed mode
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72 Windows taskbar reports two windows in the video embed mode.
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79 Description: External audio file playing
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80 Allow several access from an input thread to allow for multi-input<br />
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81 (90% done) Add GUI elements
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82 Status: Assigned to fenrir
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88 Description: make everything UTF-8 based
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89 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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96 Description: Rewrite the SAP parser
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97 The SAP parser is very dirty at the moment, and needs a complete rewrite.
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98 - caching support<br />
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99 - timeout support<br />
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100 - add meta-information to playlist<br />
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101 - session version support<br />
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102 Status: Assigned to zorglub (80% done)
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108 Description: Playlist II
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109 A hierarchized playlist structure, eventually using a media library.
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110 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><br />
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113 - Core support<br />
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114 - *** Improve random mode and fix loop<br />
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115 - * "Name finder"<br />
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116 - * "Protocol rollover" node<br />
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117 - *** Item moving/copying facilities<br />
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118 - *** Live directory representation<br />
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119 - Helper modules<br />
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120 - ** ASX and B4S parsers (see below)<br />
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121 - * Rewrite SLP announce discovery<br />
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122 - *** Implement in MacOS X and Skins 2 interfaces<br />
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123 - wx implementation :<br />
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124 - *** Investigate bug with wxImageList<br />
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125 - ** Support item move/copy<br />
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126 - * Explorer view<br />
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127 - *** Fix search<br />
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128 - ** Clever update using i_serial<br />
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129 - * Playlist preferences panel<br />
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130 - ** Improve iteminfo dialog<br />
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131 Status: Assigned to zorglub
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137 Description: fix ASX playlist parser
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138 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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145 Description: fix current muxers.
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146 Our avi muxer doesn't produce valid files
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153 Description: 24 bit LPCM
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154 - Increasingly more DVDs use 24 bit LPCM sound. We should support it.
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162 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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169 Description: Rework of the preferences
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170 * New information in preferences for a rework of how preferences are sorted in interfaces
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172 See http://www.via.ecp.fr/via/ml/vlc-devel/200409/msg00409.html
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173 Status: Assigned to zorglub
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179 Description: New OS X preferences
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180 New preferences for Mac OS X. Current not suited for Mac Users and several
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181 Pref. elements are broken (hotkeys and int with string desc.).
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188 Description: OS X bookmarks window
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189 We miss a bookmarks window like the wxwidget one.
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196 Description: Finish Mac Mozilla plugin
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197 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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198 Status: Halfway (stalled)
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204 Description: Controlling the mozilla plugin
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205 The mozilla plugin needs to be better controllable (via javascript). <br />
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206 - retrieve variable values.<br />
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207 - open VLC media player<br />
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208 - default html page to control the plugin<br />
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209 - XUL controls<br />
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210 (80% done) see:<br />
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211 <a href="http://sierra.via.ecp.fr/~zorglub/vlc/plugin/vlc.html">Javascript controls</a>
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212 <a href="http://sierra.via.ecp.fr/~zorglub/vlc/xul/">XUL controls</a>
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213 <a href="http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/">MPlayer Mozilla plugin</a>
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214 Status: Assigned to zorglub
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218 Platform: Win32, Linux
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220 Description: equalizer fixes
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221 - Gray out "reset to defaults" for audio equalizer when disabled<br />
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222 - Once audio equalizer is disabled, it doesn't enable the first
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223 try when you select from main menu. It only works a 2nd change
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224 (enable flag not properly set?).
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229 Platform: Win32, Linux
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231 Description: wxWidgets fixes
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232 - Rename wxWindows to wxWidgets<br />
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233 - Problems with slider (doesn't go where you click, keep updating while seeking
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242 Description: SVCD support
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243 libcdio needs to be ported to the Mac to support the cddax and vcdx modules for proper SVCD support
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250 Description: Stream text subtitles
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251 Find a a way to stream text subtitles, in TS and in RTP.<br />
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252 Needs testing and validating
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253 Status: 65% (fenrir)
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259 Description: RTSP server
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260 Full implementation of a RTSP server. We already have a very basic implementation working but it does need a lot more work. See the following <a href="http://via.ecp.fr/via/ml/streaming/200408/msg00068.html">mail</a> and <a href="http://via.ecp.fr/via/ml/streaming/200410/msg00002.html">mail</a>.
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266 Platform: Win32/Linux
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267 Description: V4L and dshow tuning support
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268 We need an API that allows us to control the tuning of V4L and dshow TV cards.
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269 Status: Todo (CryHavoc)
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275 Description: RAR/ZIP/... access
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276 An access module that would be able to uncompress compressed files.
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283 Description: DVTS support
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284 DV over RTP support. See <a href="http://www.sfc.wide.ad.jp/DVTS/">DVTS homepage</a>
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291 Description: WinCE port finalizing
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292 The WinCE port is already quite functional but we still miss a GAPI video output (GDI works but is slow) and an interface.
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293 Some code already exists for that (http://sourceforge.net/projects/vlcpocketpc/) and would need to be imported into the VLC source tree.
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294 Downloads should be added to the main vlc download page. We need an icon for this.
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295 Status: Assigned to MixerAnderson
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301 Description: Full blown OSD system
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302 In the line of freevo etc.
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303 Status: Assigned to thedj, jpsaman and yoann
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309 Description: GSM decoder
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310 The <a href="http://kbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/~jutta/toast.html">Toast</a> implementation.
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317 Description: AMR decoder
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318 We will need to find one that isn't based on the reference code.
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325 Description: MusePack decoder
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326 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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333 Description: APE decoder
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334 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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341 Description: flash video playing/streaming
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342 A flash video muxer and demuxer. FFMPEG can already output flash video. a waste not to make use of that capability.
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349 Description: Closed Captions/Teletext support
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350 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.<br />
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351 - Use ZVBI library for VBI decoding and image generation<br />
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352 - ESTI EN 300 472 for EBU teletext support in DVB<br />
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353 Perhaps look at Xawtv, dvbtext and other vbi, vtx systems.
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360 Description: DVB info in NIT
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361 We need to get the information of a DVB stream that are in the NIT (current program, next program, ...)
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368 Description: IceCast/ShoutCast serving
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369 This would be a nice thing for the sake of completeness of VLC's streaming capabilities.
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376 Description: More/Better Picture filters
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377 There are several picture filters (blend, scale), but we can use more (screenshot, crop, move..) We probably need on the fly picture filter insertion as well.
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384 Description: Vout redesign
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385 - vout needs distinct splitting into vout_core, vout_window, pic_filter, vout_filter
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386 - needs 'assistence' vout windows (clone filters, goom) etc.
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387 - 4:3, 16:9, freeform Aspect Ratio
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388 - cropping and padding (do at OS level, but provide a core call to set it up and configure).
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389 - OSD at window resolution instead of video res (secondary vout channel)
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390 - a OSD needs to be bound to a vout stream (no subs on goom vout)
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391 - 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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398 Description: Subtitle work
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399 - better SSA support with postioning, colors etc.
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400 - Fix subtitles dialogs (mac done)
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407 Description: Automatic charset recognition
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408 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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415 Description: skins2
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416 Port VLC skins to Objective C++ and OSX. Also requires the intf to be a dialog handler.
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423 Description: informing user.
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424 Implement a system to: <br />
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425 - Alert the user of critical errors (cannot play file). Should be blocking. <br />
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426 - Ask the user a question (Are you sure? or Try to Fix index of avi? or Overwrite File?)<br />
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427 - 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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428 - present a user/passwd dialog when we get an authentication failure on a stream.<br />
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435 Description: Full H323 Videoconferencing
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436 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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437 We also will need SIP support.
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444 Description: QuickTime capturing
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445 Allow capturing from QuickTime Firewire, USB and PCI devices.
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446 Possibly see: <a href="http://bugzilla.videolan.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=416">Bug 416</a>
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453 Description: ActiveX control for VLC
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454 We need an ActiveX version of VLC for IE intergration
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461 Description: export paramaters of an input
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462 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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467 - codecs, etc.<br />
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474 Description: SSL http
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475 SSL encrypted HTTP communication. To support protected VoD.<br />
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476 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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483 Description: http cookies
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484 For protected VoD (http://a-select.surfnet.nl)
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491 Description: Progressive download playing
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492 Allow application/vlc mimetype to launch VLC instead of plugin for video file.
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493 Allows for Progressive download to TEMP folder from browsers. VLC would play the file in the TEMP.
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500 Description: rendezvous announces
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501 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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502 DMAP protocol announce for videos.
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509 Description: SDL vout cleaning
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510 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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517 Description: Electronic Program Guide
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518 Integrate a EPG system into VLC.
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519 Status: Todo (CryHavoc)
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525 Description: a Time Shifting module
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526 This module should create TiVo like capabilities for VLC.
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527 Status: Todo (CryHavoc)
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533 Description: UDP packet reordering
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534 Currently we ignore every packet that is too late and just wait for a fresh one.
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535 It would be nice to be able to reorder the packets in the buffer to prevent degredation of the signal.
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542 Description: Make vlm more user friendly (setup etc)
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543 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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550 Description: Protocol rollover
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551 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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552 However, how spec compliant can this be?<br />
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553 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 ( or implement this in the new style playlist system [only advance index on failure]).
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560 Description: NAT issues
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561 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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562 Protocol rollover can be a solution for a lot of these issues.
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563 Use full DNS names in SDP
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570 Description: Gstreamer and Helix API integration
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571 See if you can support GStreamer and helix plugins in one way or another.
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578 Description: Gnome-vfs support
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579 For integration with smb, sftp and other file sharing/mounting methods
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586 Description: Matroska muxer
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594 Description: TTA decoder
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595 TTA is said to be a fast en good lossless codec. Opensource library
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596 availabe: http://tta.corecodec.org/
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603 Description: Option to automatically deinterlace when needed
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604 Mkv stores wether a video track is interlaced in the traxk descriptor
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605 libmpeg2 etc output this information in the header AND on a per-picture basis
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612 Description: UDF decoder
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613 Support for the new XML based subtitle format called UDF
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620 Description: Faster deinterlacing
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621 Our deinterlacers are relatively slow. DScaler has the best Soft deinterlacers out there.
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622 Unfortunatly it is very Win32 focused.
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629 Description: More service discovery modules
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630 - Port UPnP support from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=89768 <br />
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631 - libhal based discovery (should be able to find cd,dvd,capture cards,etc etc <br />
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632 - Perhaps a generalized webpage parser (use user supplied templates to parse
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633 streams from popular websites )
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640 Description: Autoselect a track based on preferred language
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641 Problems might exist with formats that don't have headers?
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642 Most part easy to do, because the language info is stored in the ES format structs these days.
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649 Description: file filters in the open dialog
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650 Have default filters in the open dialog. like:
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652 Sound Files( .mp3, .ogg, .wav, .m4a, .m4p)<br />
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653 Video Files( .avi, .mkv, .mov, .mpg, .m2v, etc)<br />
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654 Subtitle Files( .idx, .sub, .utf, .srt)<br />
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