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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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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96 Status: Assigned to thedj, jpsaman and yoann
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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 - ** Support item move/copy<br />
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131 - * Explorer view<br />
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132 - *** Fix search<br />
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133 - ** Clever update using i_serial<br />
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134 - * Playlist preferences panel<br />
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135 - ** Improve iteminfo dialog<br />
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136 Status: Assigned to zorglub
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142 Description: fix ASX playlist parser
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143 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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150 Description: fix current muxers.
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151 Our avi muxer doesn't produce valid files
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159 Description: GSM decoder
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160 The <a href="http://kbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/~jutta/toast.html">Toast</a> implementation.
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167 Description: AMR decoder
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168 We will need to find one that isn't based on the reference code.
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175 Description: MusePack decoder
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176 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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183 Description: 24 bit LPCM
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184 - Increasingly more DVDs use 24 bit LPCM sound. We should support it.
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192 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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199 Description: APE decoder
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200 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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207 Description: flash video playing/streaming
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208 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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215 Description: Closed Captions/Teletext support
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216 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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217 - Use ZVBI library for VBI decoding and image generation<br />
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218 - ESTI EN 300 472 for EBU teletext support in DVB<br />
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219 Perhaps look at Xawtv, dvbtext and other vbi, vtx systems.
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226 Description: DVB info in NIT
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227 We need to get the information of a DVB stream that are in the NIT (current program, next program, ...)
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234 Description: IceCast/ShoutCast serving
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235 This would be a nice thing for the sake of completeness of VLC's streaming capabilities.
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242 Description: Rework of the preferences
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243 * New information in preferences for a rework of how preferences are sorted in interfaces
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245 See http://www.via.ecp.fr/via/ml/vlc-devel/200409/msg00409.html
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246 Status: Assigned to zorglub
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252 Description: New OS X preferences
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253 New preferences for Mac OS X. Current not suited for Mac Users and several
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254 Pref. elements are broken (hotkeys and int with string desc.).
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261 Description: OS X bookmarks window
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262 We miss a bookmarks window like the wxwidget one.
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269 Description: CoreAudio multichannel audio output.
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270 Convert to <a href="http://www.mat.ucsb.edu:8000/CoreAudio/108">AUHAL</a> based sytem.
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271 Still no info over S/PDIF output available.
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272 Outstanding issues:<br />
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273 - G5 S/PDIF not working<br />
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274 - G5 PCM not working because S/PDIF is selected by default, even if not connected.<br />
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281 Description: Stream text subtitles
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282 Find a a way to stream text subtitles, in TS and in RTP.<br />
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283 Needs testing and validating
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284 Status: 65% (fenrir)
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290 Description: RTSP server
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291 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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298 Description: More/Better Picture filters
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299 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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306 Description: Vout redesign
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307 - vout needs distinct splitting into vout_core, vout_window, pic_filter, vout_filter
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308 - needs 'assistence' vout windows (clone filters, goom) etc.
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309 - 4:3, 16:9, freeform Aspect Ratio
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310 - cropping and padding (do at OS level, but provide a core call to set it up and configure).
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311 - OSD at window resolution instead of video res (secondary vout channel)
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312 - a OSD needs to be bound to a vout stream (no subs on goom vout)
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313 - 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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320 Description: Subtitle work
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321 - better SSA support with postioning, colors etc.
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322 - Fix subtitles dialogs (mac done)
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329 Description: Automatic charset recognition
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330 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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337 Description: skins2
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338 Port VLC skins to Objective C++ and OSX. Also requires the intf to be a dialog handler.
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345 Description: informing user.
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346 Implement a system to: <br />
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347 - Alert the user of critical errors (cannot play file). Should be blocking. <br />
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348 - Ask the user a question (Are you sure? or Try to Fix index of avi? or Overwrite File?)<br />
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349 - 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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350 - present a user/passwd dialog when we get an authentication failure on a stream.<br />
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357 Description: Full H323 Videoconferencing
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358 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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359 We also will need SIP support.
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366 Description: SVCD support
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367 libcdio needs to be ported to the Mac to support the cddax and vcdx modules for proper SVCD support
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374 Description: QuickTime capturing
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375 Allow capturing from QuickTime Firewire, USB and PCI devices.
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376 Possibly see: <a href="http://bugzilla.videolan.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=416">Bug 416</a>
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383 Description: Finish Mac Mozilla plugin
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384 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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385 Status: Halfway (stalled)
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391 Description: Controlling the mozilla plugin
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392 The mozilla plugin needs to be better controllable (via javascript). <br />
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393 - retrieve variable values.<br />
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394 - open VLC media player<br />
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395 - default html page to control the plugin<br />
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396 - XUL controls<br />
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397 (80% done) see:<br />
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398 <a href="http://sierra.via.ecp.fr/~zorglub/vlc/plugin/vlc.html">Javascript controls</a>
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399 <a href="http://sierra.via.ecp.fr/~zorglub/vlc/xul/">XUL controls</a>
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400 <a href="http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/">MPlayer Mozilla plugin</a>
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401 Status: Assigned to zorglub
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407 Description: ActiveX control for VLC
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408 We need an ActiveX version of VLC for IE intergration
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415 Description: export paramaters of an input
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416 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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421 - codecs, etc.<br />
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428 Description: SSL http
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429 SSL encrypted HTTP communication. To support protected VoD.<br />
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430 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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437 Description: http cookies
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438 For protected VoD (http://a-select.surfnet.nl)
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445 Description: Progressive download playing
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446 Allow application/vlc mimetype to launch VLC instead of plugin for video file.
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447 Allows for Progressive download to TEMP folder from browsers. VLC would play the file in the TEMP.
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454 Description: rendezvous announces
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455 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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456 DMAP protocol announce for videos.
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463 Description: SDL vout cleaning
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464 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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470 Platform: Win32/Linux
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471 Description: V4L and dshow tuning support
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472 We need an API that allows us to control the tuning of V4L and dshow TV cards.
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473 Status: Todo (CryHavoc)
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479 Description: Electronic Program Guide
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480 Integrate a EPG system into VLC.
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481 Status: Todo (CryHavoc)
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487 Description: a Time Shifting module
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488 This module should create TiVo like capabilities for VLC.
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489 Status: Todo (CryHavoc)
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495 Description: UDP packet reordering
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496 Currently we ignore every packet that is too late and just wait for a fresh one.
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497 It would be nice to be able to reorder the packets in the buffer to prevent degredation of the signal.
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504 Description: Make vlm more user friendly (setup etc)
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505 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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512 Description: Protocol rollover
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513 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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514 However, how spec compliant can this be?<br />
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515 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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522 Description: NAT issues
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523 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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524 Protocol rollover can be a solution for a lot of these issues.
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525 Use full DNS names in SDP
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532 Description: Gstreamer and Helix API integration
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533 See if you can support GStreamer and helix plugins in one way or another.
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540 Description: Gnome-vfs support
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541 For integration with smb, sftp and other file sharing/mounting methods
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548 Description: Update matroska demux
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556 Description: Matroska muxer
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564 Description: TTA decoder
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565 TTA is said to be a fast en good lossless codec. Opensource library
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566 availabe: http://tta.corecodec.org/
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573 Description: Option to automatically deinterlace when needed
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574 Mkv stores wether a video track is interlaced in the traxk descriptor
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575 libmpeg2 etc output this information in the header AND on a per-picture basis
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582 Description: UDF decoder
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583 Support for the new XML based subtitle format called UDF
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590 Description: Faster deinterlacing
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591 Our deinterlacers are relatively slow. DScaler has the best Soft deinterlacers out there.
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592 Unfortunatly it is very Win32 focused.
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600 Description: More service discovery modules
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601 - Port UPnP support from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=89768 <br />
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602 - libhal based discovery (should be able to find cd,dvd,capture cards,etc etc <br />
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603 - Perhaps a generalized webpage parser (use user supplied templates to parse
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604 streams from popular websites )
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611 Description: Autoselect a track based on preferred language
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612 Problems might exist with formats that don't have headers?
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613 Most part easy to do, because the language info is stored in the ES format structs these days.
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620 Description: Clock Synchro redesign
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621 We need to adapt the clock synchro to work better with BOTH files and streams.
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628 Description: file filters in the open dialog
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629 Have default filters in the open dialog. like:
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631 Sound Files( .mp3, .ogg, .wav, .m4a, .m4p)<br />
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632 Video Files( .avi, .mkv, .mov, .mpg, .m2v, etc)<br />
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633 Subtitle Files( .idx, .sub, .utf, .srt)<br />
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