6 # Difficulty values: Easy, Medium, Hard, Guru
8 # Urgency values: Wishlist, Normal, Important, Critical
13 Description: Implement pause
14 There is no real `pause' command yet. Pausing just stops
15 displaying and sound playback, but the streams continues to
16 be decoded. One will have to do a file implementation as
17 well as a network implementation.
23 Description: Rewrite input for Program Stream files
24 Currently when we read a PS file, it is first translated to TS
25 because we first had only PS support. Now time has come to get
26 rid of this ugly kludge and integrate a proper PS input.
32 Description: DeCSS and DVD ioctls
33 The vlc needs the DVD ioctls support as well as the integration
34 of DeCSS to play DVDs properly. The person doing this should
35 probably not live in a country where DeCSS has been ruled illegal.
41 Description: ASCII-art output
42 For the ones who don't know how to waste their time, they can
43 try to do an ASCII-art output plugin.
49 Description: LPCM decoder
50 The LPCM decoder is full of stubs, it only parses the stream
51 but does not decode it. Fix this.
57 Description: Fix field pictures support
58 Some MPEG2 streams are interleaved, and the vlc does not support
59 this very well. Adding support for them requires an excellent
60 knowledge of the MPEG2 papers.
66 Description: modularize decoder
67 Make the decoder a plugin, so that two versions can coexist
68 without recompilation (MMX and non-MMX).
74 Description: Make interface more responsive
76 When in "waiting for stream" mode, the interface is refreshed
77 every 5 seconds. This is too long, and can be confusing for
78 the user. Make it refresh at least after a keyboard/mouse event.
84 Description: Support MP1 and MP3
85 The vlc does not support all MPEG1 audio formats yet, nor
86 does it support MPEG1/2 layer 3.
91 Description: Split interface/video_output
92 The interface and the vout modules are too dependant, which
93 makes it impossible to run the Glide output with the Gnome
94 interface for instance. This will require a major rewrite of
95 the interface, and a solid knowledge of how the vlc internals
102 Description: Add 24bpp YUV
103 There is no 24bpp support yet. Add it, either in MMX
110 Description: Fix 8bpp YUV
111 The 8bpp YUV function is broken, there is some serious
112 alpha blending, and it scales pretty badly. Fix it.
113 Status: Done 14 Aug 2000 (sam)
118 Description: Fix input_file exit
119 input_file does not exit cleanly when the file is finished,
120 which makes it impossible to quit the vlc. Fix it.
126 Description: Debug MPEG1 video
127 The MPEG1 support has been done, but it still crashes.
133 Description: Support MPEG1 timecodes
134 The vlc can parse an MPEG1 system stream, but the parsed
135 PCR values do not seem to be correct. Check what's wrong.
141 Description: Fix 32bpp MMX YUV
142 The MMX 32bpp YUV function is buggy.
143 Status: Done 13 Aug 2000 (sam)
148 Description: Optimize YUV scaling
149 The YUV scaling method does not seem very efficient. Perhaps
150 some CPU cycles can be gained by saving some buffers.
156 Description: vlc icon
157 The vlc needs an icon. It should render well in 48x48 but
164 Description: Better black&white support
165 When in B&W mode, the chroma part of pictures is decoded,
166 but it would be more efficient not to decode at all when
167 the video decoder knows it does not need to.
173 Description: Rename channel names
174 Channels should start from 1 (not 0) like on a VCR or TV,
175 and Channel 0 should be renamed to "Playlist" or similar.
181 Description: Framebuffer exit bug
182 When the vlc abnormally exits in framebuffer mode, it leaves
183 the console in an unusable state. This does not happen on
184 the Matrox framebuffer, but it does on the VESA one.
190 Description: Fix synchro
191 The synchronization algorithm sucks a bit. While it is
192 quite efficient on frameskipping on slow machines, it
193 is not smart enough on fast machines and does not detect
194 when it has enough time for a frame. Perhaps a better
195 handling of the dates might help.
201 Description: Allow to force synchro
202 Add a --force-synchro option to bypass the auto-adaptative
203 algorithm present in the vlc. Options should allow displaying
204 only I frames, only I and P, or all frames, or some more
205 fancy stuff such as half the Bs.
206 Status: Done 8 Aug 2000 (sam)
211 Description: Do separate packages
212 The plugins can be compiled with specific libraries, such
213 as Gnome, GGI, Esound. Putting all of them in the same
214 package would require a lot of useless dependencies, thus
215 one should do separate packages: a core "vlc" package, and
216 "vlc-fb", "vlc-ggi", "vlc-esd" packages depending on the
223 Description: Get rid of dumb vlc aliases
224 When compiling the vlc, some symlinks to the main app
225 are created, such as gvlc, ggivlc, etc. Actually this
226 might confuse the user, so they should be removed,
227 except perhaps gvlc and fbvlc which follow a usual
229 Status: Done 8 Aug 2000 (sam)
234 Description: Get rid of floating instructions
235 Mixing floating instructions and MMX is seldom a good idea,
236 it might be interesting to remove all floating instructions
237 in a single thread. The audio decoders are of course not
238 concerned by this task.
244 Description: Fix VDEC_SMP segfaults
245 When compiled to support SMP, the vlc segfaults. The synchro
246 code lacks locks, but there might be bugs elsewhere as well.
252 Description: Optimize video parser
253 The video parser has some speed issues currently unexplained:
254 even though most functions are inlined, it keeps eating more
255 CPU than it should. This has to be investigated.
261 Description: vlms backport
262 The vlc uses the same file input code as the vlms (VideoLAN
263 Mini Server) which has been much improved. Someone should
264 port modifications done to the vlms back to the vlc.
270 Description: Get rid of vlc.channels
271 The file vlc.channels should be removed and information
272 found in it put either into ~/.vlcrc or in another rc
273 file. Note that this file can be modified by the vlc.
279 Description: Playlist API
280 Currently only files given in the command line are played,
281 one after the other. We need a smarter way to handle this,
282 through AddFile(), MoveFile(), etc. functions. input_file
283 has to be modified to support this as well.
289 Description: Better Gnome interface
290 The Gnome interface has many stubs and is actually rather
291 unfunctional. Someone should make the buttons work when
292 the appropriate hooks exist.
299 The Matrox acceleration for the vlc does not work yet,
300 though there are initialization routines in the code.
306 Description: Splash screen
307 The vlc needs a splash screen with a vlc logo, instead of
308 the "waiting for stream" message.