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 - *** Fix meta-information (author and duration)<br />
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118 - ** input options inheritance (down nodes)<br />
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119 - *** Improve random mode and fix loop<br />
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120 - * "Name finder"<br />
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121 - * "Protocol rollover" node<br />
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122 - *** Item moving/copying facilities<br />
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123 - *** Live directory representation<br />
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124 - Helper modules<br />
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125 - ** Strip path in subdirectories<br />
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126 - ** ASX and B4S parsers (see below)<br />
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127 - * Rewrite SLP announce discovery<br />
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128 - ** Adapt CDDAX<br />
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129 - ** Fix MP4, LIVE.COM<br />
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130 - *** Implement in MacOS X and Skins 2 interfaces<br />
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131 - wx implementation :<br />
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132 - *** Investigate bug with wxImageList<br />
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133 - ** Support item move/copy<br />
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134 - * Explorer view<br />
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135 - *** Fix search<br />
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136 - ** Clever update using i_serial<br />
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137 - * Playlist preferences panel<br />
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138 - ** Improve iteminfo dialog<br />
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139 Status: Assigned to zorglub
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145 Description: fix ASX playlist parser
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146 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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153 Description: fix current muxers.
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154 Our avi muxer doesn't produce valid files
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162 Description: GSM decoder
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163 The <a href="http://kbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/~jutta/toast.html">Toast</a> implementation.
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170 Description: AMR decoder
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171 We will need to find one that isn't based on the reference code.
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178 Description: MusePack decoder
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179 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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186 Description: 24 bit LPCM
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187 - Increasingly more DVDs use 24 bit LPCM sound. We should support it.
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195 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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202 Description: APE decoder
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203 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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210 Description: flash video playing/streaming
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211 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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218 Description: Closed Captions/Teletext support
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219 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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220 - Use ZVBI library for VBI decoding and image generation<br />
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221 - ESTI EN 300 472 for EBU teletext support in DVB<br />
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222 Perhaps look at Xawtv, dvbtext and other vbi, vtx systems.
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229 Description: DVB info in NIT
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230 We need to get the information of a DVB stream that are in the NIT (current program, next program, ...)
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237 Description: IceCast/ShoutCast serving
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238 This would be a nice thing for the sake of completeness of VLC's streaming capabilities.
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245 Description: Rework of the preferences
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246 * New information in preferences for a rework of how preferences are sorted in interfaces
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248 See http://www.via.ecp.fr/via/ml/vlc-devel/200409/msg00409.html
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249 Status: Assigned to zorglub
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255 Description: New OS X preferences
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256 New preferences for Mac OS X. Current not suited for Mac Users and several
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257 Pref. elements are broken (hotkeys and int with string desc.).
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264 Description: OS X bookmarks window
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265 We miss a bookmarks window like the wxwidget one.
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272 Description: CoreAudio multichannel audio output.
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273 Convert to <a href="http://www.mat.ucsb.edu:8000/CoreAudio/108">AUHAL</a> based sytem.
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274 Still no info over S/PDIF output available.
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275 Outstanding issues:<br />
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276 - G5 S/PDIF not working<br />
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277 - G5 PCM not working because S/PDIF is selected by default, even if not connected.<br />
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284 Description: Stream text subtitles
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285 Find a a way to stream text subtitles, in TS and in RTP.<br />
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286 Needs testing and validating
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287 Status: 65% (fenrir)
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293 Description: RTSP server
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294 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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301 Description: More/Better Picture filters
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302 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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309 Description: Vout redesign
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310 - vout needs distinct splitting into vout_core, vout_window, pic_filter, vout_filter
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311 - needs 'assistence' vout windows (clone filters, goom) etc.
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312 - 4:3, 16:9, freeform Aspect Ratio
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313 - cropping and padding (do at OS level, but provide a core call to set it up and configure).
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314 - OSD at window resolution instead of video res (secondary vout channel)
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315 - a OSD needs to be bound to a vout stream (no subs on goom vout)
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316 - 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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323 Description: Subtitle work
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324 - better SSA support with postioning, colors etc.
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325 - Fix subtitles dialogs (mac done)
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332 Description: Automatic charset recognition
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333 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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340 Description: skins2
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341 Port VLC skins to Objective C++ and OSX. Also requires the intf to be a dialog handler.
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348 Description: informing user.
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349 Implement a system to: <br />
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350 - Alert the user of critical errors (cannot play file). Should be blocking. <br />
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351 - Ask the user a question (Are you sure? or Try to Fix index of avi? or Overwrite File?)<br />
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352 - 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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353 - present a user/passwd dialog when we get an authentication failure on a stream.<br />
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360 Description: Full H323 Videoconferencing
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361 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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362 We also will need SIP support.
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369 Description: SVCD support
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370 libcdio needs to be ported to the Mac to support the cddax and vcdx modules for proper SVCD support
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377 Description: QuickTime capturing
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378 Allow capturing from QuickTime Firewire, USB and PCI devices.
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379 Possibly see: <a href="http://bugzilla.videolan.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=416">Bug 416</a>
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386 Description: Finish Mac Mozilla plugin
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387 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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388 Status: Halfway (stalled)
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394 Description: Controlling the mozilla plugin
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395 The mozilla plugin needs to be better controllable (via javascript). <br />
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396 - retrieve variable values.<br />
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397 - open VLC media player<br />
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398 - default html page to control the plugin<br />
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399 - XUL controls<br />
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400 (80% done) see:<br />
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401 <a href="http://sierra.via.ecp.fr/~zorglub/vlc/plugin/vlc.html">Javascript controls</a>
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402 <a href="http://sierra.via.ecp.fr/~zorglub/vlc/xul/">XUL controls</a>
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403 <a href="http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/">MPlayer Mozilla plugin</a>
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404 Status: Assigned to zorglub
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410 Description: ActiveX control for VLC
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411 We need an ActiveX version of VLC for IE intergration
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418 Description: export paramaters of an input
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419 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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424 - codecs, etc.<br />
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431 Description: SSL http
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432 SSL encrypted HTTP communication. To support protected VoD.<br />
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433 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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440 Description: http cookies
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441 For protected VoD (http://a-select.surfnet.nl)
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448 Description: Progressive download playing
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449 Allow application/vlc mimetype to launch VLC instead of plugin for video file.
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450 Allows for Progressive download to TEMP folder from browsers. VLC would play the file in the TEMP.
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457 Description: rendezvous announces
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458 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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459 DMAP protocol announce for videos.
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466 Description: SDL vout cleaning
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467 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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473 Platform: Win32/Linux
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474 Description: V4L and dshow tuning support
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475 We need an API that allows us to control the tuning of V4L and dshow TV cards.
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476 Status: Todo (CryHavoc)
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482 Description: Electronic Program Guide
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483 Integrate a EPG system into VLC.
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484 Status: Todo (CryHavoc)
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490 Description: a Time Shifting module
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491 This module should create TiVo like capabilities for VLC.
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492 Status: Todo (CryHavoc)
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498 Description: UDP packet reordering
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499 Currently we ignore every packet that is too late and just wait for a fresh one.
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500 It would be nice to be able to reorder the packets in the buffer to prevent degredation of the signal.
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507 Description: Make vlm more user friendly (setup etc)
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508 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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515 Description: Protocol rollover
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516 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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517 However, how spec compliant can this be?<br />
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518 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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525 Description: NAT issues
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526 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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527 Protocol rollover can be a solution for a lot of these issues.
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528 Use full DNS names in SDP
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535 Description: Gstreamer and Helix API integration
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536 See if you can support GStreamer and helix plugins in one way or another.
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543 Description: Gnome-vfs support
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544 For integration with smb, sftp and other file sharing/mounting methods
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551 Description: Update matroska demux
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559 Description: Matroska muxer
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567 Description: TTA decoder
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568 TTA is said to be a fast en good lossless codec. Opensource library
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569 availabe: http://tta.corecodec.org/
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576 Description: Option to automatically deinterlace when needed
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577 Mkv stores wether a video track is interlaced in the traxk descriptor
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578 libmpeg2 etc output this information in the header AND on a per-picture basis
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585 Description: UDF decoder
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586 Support for the new XML based subtitle format called UDF
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593 Description: Faster deinterlacing
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594 Our deinterlacers are relatively slow. DScaler has the best Soft deinterlacers out there.
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595 Unfortunatly it is very Win32 focused.
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603 Description: More service discovery modules
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604 - Port UPnP support from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=89768 <br />
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605 - libhal based discovery (should be able to find cd,dvd,capture cards,etc etc <br />
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606 - Perhaps a generalized webpage parser (use user supplied templates to parse
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607 streams from popular websites )
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614 Description: Autoselect a track based on preferred language
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615 Problems might exist with formats that don't have headers?
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616 Most part easy to do, because the language info is stored in the ES format structs these days.
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623 Description: Clock Synchro redesign
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624 We need to adapt the clock synchro to work better with BOTH files and streams.
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631 Description: file filters in the open dialog
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632 Have default filters in the open dialog. like:
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634 Sound Files( .mp3, .ogg, .wav, .m4a, .m4p)<br />
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635 Video Files( .avi, .mkv, .mov, .mpg, .m2v, etc)<br />
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636 Subtitle Files( .idx, .sub, .utf, .srt)<br />
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