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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34 Description: proper DVD controls
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35 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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40 Platform: Linux, Win32, Mac OS X
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42 Description: Streaming wizard
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43 Finish the streaming wizard (85% finished)<br />
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44 The mac version is at 0%
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45 Status: Assigned to zorglub
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51 Description: configure overview of modules
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52 configure should report what it will and what it won't build, after it is done running.
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59 Description: WinCE port finalizing
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60 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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61 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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62 Downloads should be added to the main vlc download page. We need an icon for this.
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63 Status: Assigned to MixerAnderson
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69 Description: Dual window in embed mode
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70 Windows taskbar reports two windows in the video embed mode.
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71 Status: Assigned to gibalou
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77 Description: External audio file playing
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78 Allow several access from an input thread to allow for multi-input<br />
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79 (90% done) Add GUI elements
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80 Status: Assigned to fenrir
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86 Description: make everything UTF-8 based
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87 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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94 Description: Full blown OSD system
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95 In the line of freevo etc.
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102 Description: Rewrite the SAP parser
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103 The SAP parser is very dirty at the moment, and needs a complete rewrite.
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104 - caching support<br />
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105 Status: Assigned to zorglub (80% done)
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111 Description: Playlist II
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112 A hierarchized playlist structure, eventually using a media library.
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113 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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116 - Core support<br />
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117 - ** input options inheritance (down nodes)<br />
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118 - *** Improve random mode and fix loop<br />
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119 - * "Name finder"<br />
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120 - * "Protocol rollover" node<br />
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121 - *** Item moving/copying facilities<br />
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122 - *** Live directory representation<br />
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123 - Helper modules<br />
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124 - ** ASX and B4S parsers (see below)<br />
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125 - * Rewrite SLP announce discovery<br />
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126 - ** Adapt CDDAX<br />
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127 - ** Fix MP4, LIVE.COM<br />
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128 - *** Implement in MacOS X and Skins 2 interfaces<br />
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129 - wx implementation :<br />
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130 - ** Add Directory<br />
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131 - ** Support item move/copy<br />
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132 - * Explorer view<br />
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133 - *** Fix search<br />
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134 - ** Clever update using i_serial<br />
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135 - * Playlist preferences panel<br />
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136 - ** Improve iteminfo dialog<br />
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137 Status: Assigned to zorglub
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143 Description: fix ASX playlist parser
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144 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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151 Description: fix current muxers.
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152 Our avi muxer doesn't produce valid files
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160 Description: GSM decoder
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161 The <a href="http://kbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/~jutta/toast.html">Toast</a> implementation.
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168 Description: AMR decoder
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169 We will need to find one that isn't based on the reference code.
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176 Description: MusePack decoder
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177 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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184 Description: 24 bit LPCM
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185 - Increasingly more DVDs use 24 bit LPCM sound. We should support it.
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193 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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200 Description: APE decoder
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201 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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208 Description: flash video playing/streaming
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209 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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216 Description: Closed Captions/Teletext support
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217 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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218 - Use ZVBI library for VBI decoding and image generation<br />
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219 - ESTI EN 300 472 for EBU teletext support in DVB<br />
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220 Perhaps look at Xawtv, dvbtext and other vbi, vtx systems.
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227 Description: DVB info in NIT
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228 We need to get the information of a DVB stream that are in the NIT (current program, next program, ...)
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235 Description: IceCast/ShoutCast serving
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236 This would be a nice thing for the sake of completeness of VLC's streaming capabilities.
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243 Description: New OS X preferences
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244 New preferences for Mac OS X. Current not suited for Mac Users and several
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245 Pref. elements are broken (hotkeys and int with string desc.).
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252 Description: OS X bookmarks window
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253 We miss a bookmarks window like the wxwidget one.
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260 Description: CoreAudio multichannel audio output.
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261 Convert to <a href="http://www.mat.ucsb.edu:8000/CoreAudio/108">AUHAL</a> based sytem.
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262 Still no info over S/PDIF output available.
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263 Outstanding issues:<br />
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264 - G5 S/PDIF not working<br />
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265 - G5 PCM not working because S/PDIF is selected by default, even if not connected.<br />
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272 Description: Stream text subtitles
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273 Find a a way to stream text subtitles, in TS and in RTP.
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274 - Find an existing norm
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276 <br />Needs testing and validating
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277 Status: 65% (fenrir)
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283 Description: RTSP server
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284 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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291 Description: More/Better Picture filters
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292 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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299 Description: Vout redesign
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300 - vout needs distinct splitting into vout_core, vout_window, pic_filter, vout_filter
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301 - needs 'assistence' vout windows (clone filters, goom) etc.
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302 - 4:3, 16:9, freeform Aspect Ratio
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303 - cropping and padding (do at OS level, but provide a core call to set it up and configure).
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304 - OSD at window resolution instead of video res (secondary vout channel)
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305 - a OSD needs to be bound to a vout stream (no subs on goom vout)
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306 - 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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313 Description: Subtitle work
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314 - better SSA support with postioning, colors etc.
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315 - Fix subtitles dialogs (mac done)
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322 Description: Automatic charset recognition
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323 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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330 Description: skins2
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331 Port VLC skins to Objective C++ and OSX. Also requires the intf to be a dialog handler.
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338 Description: informing user.
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339 Implement a system to: <br />
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340 - Alert the user of critical errors (cannot play file). Should be blocking. <br />
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341 - Ask the user a question (Are you sure? or Try to Fix index of avi? or Overwrite File?)<br />
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342 - 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 - present a user/passwd dialog when we get an authentication failure on a stream.<br />
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350 Description: Full H323 Videoconferencing
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351 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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352 We also will need SIP support.
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359 Description: SVCD support
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360 libcdio needs to be ported to the Mac to support the cddax and vcdx modules for proper SVCD support
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367 Description: QuickTime capturing
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368 Allow capturing from QuickTime Firewire, USB and PCI devices.
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369 Possibly see: <a href="http://bugzilla.videolan.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=416">Bug 416</a>
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376 Description: Finish Mac Mozilla plugin
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377 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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378 Status: Halfway (stalled)
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384 Description: Controlling the mozilla plugin
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385 The mozilla plugin needs to be better controllable (via javascript). <br />
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386 - retrieve variable values.<br />
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387 - open VLC media player<br />
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388 - default html page to control the plugin<br />
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389 - XUL controls<br />
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390 (80% done) see:<br />
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391 <a href="http://sierra.via.ecp.fr/~zorglub/vlc/plugin/vlc.html">Javascript controls</a>
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392 <a href="http://sierra.via.ecp.fr/~zorglub/vlc/xul/">XUL controls</a>
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393 <a href="http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/">MPlayer Mozilla plugin</a>
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394 Status: Assigned to zorglub
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400 Description: ActiveX control for VLC
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401 We need an ActiveX version of VLC for IE intergration
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408 Description: export paramaters of an input
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409 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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414 - codecs, etc.<br />
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421 Description: SSL http
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422 SSL encrypted HTTP communication. To support protected VoD.<br />
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423 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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430 Description: http cookies
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431 For protected VoD (http://a-select.surfnet.nl)
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438 Description: Progressive download playing
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439 Allow application/vlc mimetype to launch VLC instead of plugin for video file.
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440 Allows for Progressive download to TEMP folder from browsers. VLC would play the file in the TEMP.
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447 Description: rendezvous announces
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448 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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449 DMAP protocol announce for videos.
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456 Description: SDL vout cleaning
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457 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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463 Platform: Win32/Linux
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464 Description: V4L and dshow tuning support
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465 We need an API that allows us to control the tuning of V4L and dshow TV cards.
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466 Status: Todo (CryHavoc)
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472 Description: Electronic Program Guide
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473 Integrate a EPG system into VLC.
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474 Status: Todo (CryHavoc)
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480 Description: a Time Shifting module
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481 This module should create TiVo like capabilities for VLC.
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482 Status: Todo (CryHavoc)
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488 Description: UDP packet reordering
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489 Currently we ignore every packet that is too late and just wait for a fresh one.
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490 It would be nice to be able to reorder the packets in the buffer to prevent degredation of the signal.
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497 Description: Make vlm more user friendly (setup etc)
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498 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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505 Description: Protocol rollover
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506 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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507 However, how spec compliant can this be?<br />
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508 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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515 Description: NAT issues
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516 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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517 Protocol rollover can be a solution for a lot of these issues.
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518 Use full DNS names in SDP
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525 Description: Gstreamer and Helix API integration
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526 See if you can support GStreamer and helix plugins in one way or another.
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533 Description: Gnome-vfs support
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534 For integration with smb, sftp and other file sharing/mounting methods
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541 Description: Update matroska demux
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549 Description: Matroska muxer
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557 Description: TTA decoder
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558 TTA is said to be a fast en good lossless codec. Opensource library
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559 availabe: http://tta.corecodec.org/
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566 Description: Option to automatically deinterlace when needed
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567 Mkv stores wether a video track is interlaced in the traxk descriptor
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568 libmpeg2 etc output this information in the header AND on a per-picture basis
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575 Description: UDF decoder
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576 Support for the new XML based subtitle format called UDF
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583 Description: Faster deinterlacing
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584 Our deinterlacers are relatively slow. DScaler has the best Soft deinterlacers out there.
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585 Unfortunatly it is very Win32 focused.
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593 Description: More service discovery modules
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594 - Port UPnP support from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=89768 <br />
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595 - libhal based discovery (should be able to find cd,dvd,capture cards,etc etc <br />
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596 - Perhaps a generalized webpage parser (use user supplied templates to parse
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597 streams from popular websites )
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604 Description: Autoselect a track based on preferred language
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605 Problems might exist with formats that don't have headers?
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606 Most part easy to do, because the language info is stored in the ES format structs these days.
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613 Description: Clock Synchro redesign
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614 We need to adapt the clock synchro to work better with BOTH files and streams.
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621 Description: file filters in the open dialog
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622 Have default filters in the open dialog. like:
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624 Sound Files( .mp3, .ogg, .wav, .m4a, .m4p)<br />
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625 Video Files( .avi, .mkv, .mov, .mpg, .m2v, etc)<br />
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626 Subtitle Files( .idx, .sub, .utf, .srt)<br />
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