2 # Difficulty values: Easy, Medium, Hard, Guru
4 # Urgency values: Wishlist, Normal, Important, Critical
10 Description: World domination
11 We need to dominate the world
18 Description: RAR/ZIP/... access
19 An access module that would be able to uncompress compressed files
26 Description: proper DVD controls
27 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.
32 Platform: Linux, Win32
34 Description: Streaming wizard
35 Finish the streaming wizard (85% finished)
36 Status: Assigned to zorglub
42 Description: configure overview of modules
43 configure should report what it will and what it won't build, after it is done running.
50 Description: WinCE port finalizing
51 Sources need to be imported into the VLC source tree.
52 Downloads should be added to the main vlc download page. We need an icon for this.
53 Status: Assigned to MixerAnderson
59 Description: Dual window in embed mode
60 Windows ttaskbar reports two windows in the video embed mode.
61 Status: Assigned to gibalou
67 Description: Multichannel downmixing
68 5:1 to Stereo proper downmixing
75 Description: Demux2 transition
76 Complete the transition to demux2. Bughunting and finishing chapter support (80% done)
77 Status: Assigned to fenrir
83 Description: Multi-acccess
84 Allow several access from an input thread to allow for multi-input (30% done)
85 Status: Assigned to fenrir
91 Description: make everything UTF-8 based
92 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.
99 Description: no blocking primary interface
100 Do away with the strange primary blocking interface. The first interface should be run in the same thread, but not be the blocking call. Load other interfaces in new threads.
107 Description: OSD Icons
108 Make OSD Icons for Play/Pause/Stop. Integrate them better into the core system.
109 Status: Assigned to yoann
115 Description: Full blown OSD system
116 In the line of freevo etc.
123 Description: Rewrite the SAP parser
124 The SAP parser is very dirty at the moment, and needs a complete rewrite.
132 Description: Tree playlist
133 A hierarchized playlist structure, eventually using a media library.
134 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</a>
141 Description: GSM decoder
142 GSM decoder not based on standard reference sources.
149 Description: MusePack decoder
150 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.
157 Description: 24 bit LPCM
158 - Increasingly more DVDs use 24 bit LPCM sound. We should support it.
165 Description: LPCM on mac
166 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.
173 Description: APE decoder
174 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.
182 Description: Closed Captions/Teletext support
183 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.
184 Perhaps look at Xawtv, dvbtext and other vbi, vtx systems.
191 Description: DVB info in NIT
192 We need to get the information of a DVB stream that are in the NIT (current program, next program, ...)
199 Description: IceCast/ShoutCast serving
200 This would be a nice thing for the sake of completeness of VLC's streaming capabilities.
207 Description: New OS X preferences
208 New preferences for Mac OS X. Current not suited for Mac Users and several
209 Pref. elements are broken (hotkeys and int with string desc.).
210 Status: Assigned to thedj
216 Description: CoreAudio multichannel audio output.
217 Convert to <a href="http://www.mat.ucsb.edu:8000/CoreAudio/108">AUHAL</a> based sytem.
218 Still no info over S/PDIF output available.
219 Outstanding issues:<br />
220 - G5 S/PDIF not working<br />
221 - G5 PCM not working because S/PDIF is selected by default, even if not connected.<br />
222 - Coreaudio resampler doesn't handle input from lpcm decoder (the samples are too small).
229 Description: Stream text subtitles
230 Find a a way to stream text subtitles, in TS and in RTP.
231 - Find an existing norm
233 (40% done) needs to be tested and validated
234 Status: Assigned to fenrir
240 Description: Fix up text subtitles
241 Currently the subtitle dialog boxes are out of date and not really useable. Also we need more files to test and verify the current support, and the rendering of the subs should be sped up quite a bit (issue with outlining?) Other issues should mostly be dealt with after the vout systems are improved.
248 Description: Rework spu decoder
249 The spu decoder needs some serious work
250 - Split/merge for dvd menu highlighting
251 - Downscaling for divx/mkv etc
252 - Chroma independence (YUVA ???)
260 Description: RTSP server
261 Full implementation of a RTSP server.
262 Status: fenrir has some code
268 Description: Picture filters
269 picture per picture chained filter system that also works on output streams
276 Description: Vout redesign
277 - vout needs distinct splitting into vout_core, vout_window, pic_filter, vout_filter
278 - needs 'assistence' vout windows (clone filters, goom) etc.
279 - 4:3, 16:9, freeform Aspect Ratio
280 - cropping and padding (do at OS level, but provide a core call to set it up and configure).
281 - OSD at window resolution instead of video res (secondary vout channel)
282 - a OSD needs to be bound to a vout stream (no subs on goom vout)
283 - 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).
290 Description: SPU redesign
291 - multiple subpicture channels
292 - centralized rendering and use of chroma filters
293 - centralized scaling support
294 (also look at ogt/cvd sub work)
301 Description: intf / vout dependency
302 The application specific parts of the intf need to be brougth to the VLC application core. A valid NSApplication needs to be created on VLC opening, with the dock and menu hidden/disabled, only being generated on VLC intf loading.
303 (70% done) need to fix the interfaces again.<br />
304 This is mostly implemented, but some mem leaks are now bothering the macosx part. this should be fixed.
305 Status: Assigned to DJ
312 Port VLC skins to Objective C++ and OSX. Also requires the intf to be a dialog handler. Is slighly dependant on intf/vout dependency todoitem
319 Description: Equalizer Graphic control
320 Now that VLC has an equalizer, we need a way to control it easily from the GUI.
327 Description: informing user.
328 Implement a system to: <br />
329 - Alert the user of critical errors (cannot play file). Should be blocking. <br />
330 - Ask the user a question (Are you sure? or Try to Fix index of avi? or Overwrite File?)<br />
331 - Inform the user, without disturbing him. (Buffering stream). This might require a time bases or something perhaps. Because how do we know how long this information should be displayed? Also think of buffering 0-100%<br />
338 Description: Full H323 Videoconferencing
339 VLC isn't really suited for this yet, because it introduces quite large latencies. This should fixed before the H323 can ever come close to working in VLC.
346 Description: SVCD support
347 libcdio needs to be ported to the Mac to support the cddax and vcdx modules for proper SVCD support
354 Description: QuickTime capturing
355 Allow capturing from QuickTime Firewire, USB and PCI devices.
356 Possibly see: <a href="http://bugzilla.videolan.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=416">Bug 416</a>
363 Description: Finish Mac Mozilla plugin
364 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.
365 Status: Halfway (stalled)
371 Description: Controlling the mozilla plugin
372 The mozilla plugin needs to be better controllable (via javascript).
373 - retrieve variable values.
374 - open VLC media player
375 - default html page to control the plugin
378 <a href="http://sierra.via.ecp.fr/~zorglub/vlc/plugin/vlc.html">Javascript controls</a>
379 <a href="http://sierra.via.ecp.fr/~zorglub/vlc/xul/">XUL controls</a>
380 Status: Assigned to zorglub
386 Description: ActiveX control for VLC
387 We need an ActiveX version of VLC for IE intergration
394 Description: export paramaters of an input
395 Export the Media Info of a file/source to a standard xml file for use by other applications. Possibly combine with file "probe'ing".
407 Description: SSL http
408 SSL encrypted HTTP communication. To support protected VoD.
415 Description: http cookies
416 For protected VoD (http://a-select.surfnet.nl)
423 Description: mime-type VLC launching
424 Allow application/vlc mimetype to launch VLC instead of plugin for video file.
425 Allows for Progressive download to TEMP folder from browsers. VLC would play the file in the TEMP.
432 Description: rendezvous announces
433 DMAP protocol announce for videos.
440 Description: SDL vout cleaning
441 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.
447 Platform: Win32/Linux
448 Description: V4L and dshow tuning support
449 We need an API that allows us to control the tuning of V4L and dshow TV cards.
450 Status: Todo (CryHavoc)
456 Description: Electronic Program Guide
457 Integrate a EPG system into VLC.
458 Status: Todo (CryHavoc)
464 Description: a Time Shifting module
465 This module should create TiVo like capabilities for VLC.
466 Status: Todo (CryHavoc)
472 Description: UDP packet reordering
473 Currently we ignore every packet that is too late and just wait for a fresh one.
474 It would be nice to be able to reorder the packets in the buffer to prevent degredation of the signal.
481 Description: Make vlm more user friendly (setup etc)
482 vlm is kinda a pain to setup if you are not entirely experiences with A/V and streaming or VLC for that matter. It can be heavily improved by updating the vlm http interface.
489 Description: Protocol rollover
490 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.
491 However, how spec compliant can this be?<br />
492 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.
499 Description: NAT issues
500 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 ????
501 Protocol rollover can be a solution for a lot of these issues.
508 Description: Gstreamer and Helix API integration
509 See if you can support GStreamer and helix plugins in one way or another.
516 Description: Gnome-vfs support
517 For integration with smb, sftp and other file sharing/mounting methods
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