-Task
-Difficulty: Easy
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: any
-Description: flash video playing/streaming
-A flash video muxer and demuxer. FFMPEG can already output flash video. a waste not to make use of that capability.
-Status: Todo
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-Task
-Difficulty: Medium
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: any
-Description: Closed Captions/Teletext support
-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 />
- - Use ZVBI library for VBI decoding and image generation<br />
- - ESTI EN 300 472 for EBU teletext support in DVB<br />
-Perhaps look at Xawtv, dvbtext and other vbi, vtx systems.
-Status: Todo
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-Task
-Difficulty: Medium
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: any
-Description: DVB info in NIT
-We need to get the information of a DVB stream that are in the NIT (current program, next program, ...)
-Status: Todo
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-Task
-Difficulty: Medium
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: any
-Description: IceCast/ShoutCast serving
-This would be a nice thing for the sake of completeness of VLC's streaming capabilities.
-Status: Todo
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-Task
-Difficulty: Easy
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: any
-Description: More/Better Picture filters
-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.
-Status: Todo
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-Task
-Difficulty: Guru
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: any
-Description: Vout redesign
-- vout needs distinct splitting into vout_core, vout_window, pic_filter, vout_filter
-- needs 'assistence' vout windows (clone filters, goom) etc.
-- 4:3, 16:9, freeform Aspect Ratio
-- cropping and padding (do at OS level, but provide a core call to set it up and configure).
-- OSD at window resolution instead of video res (secondary vout channel)
-- a OSD needs to be bound to a vout stream (no subs on goom vout)
-- 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).
-Status: Todo
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-Task
-Difficulty: Medium
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: any
-Description: Subtitle work
-- better SSA support with postioning, colors etc.
-- Fix subtitles dialogs (mac done)
-Status: Todo
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-Task
-Difficulty: Easy
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: any
-Description: Automatic charset recognition
-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?
-Status: Todo
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-Task
-Difficulty: Guru
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: Mac OS X
-Description: skins2
-Port VLC skins to Objective C++ and OSX. Also requires the intf to be a dialog handler.
-Status: Todo
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-Task
-Difficulty: Hard
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: any
-Description: informing user.
-Implement a system to: <br />
- - Alert the user of critical errors (cannot play file). Should be blocking. <br />
- - Ask the user a question (Are you sure? or Try to Fix index of avi? or Overwrite File?)<br />
- - 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 />
- - present a user/passwd dialog when we get an authentication failure on a stream.<br />
-Status: Todo
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-Task
-Difficulty: Hard
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: any
-Description: Full H323 Videoconferencing
-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.
-We also will need SIP support.
-Status: Todo
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-Task
-Difficulty: Hard
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: Mac OS X
-Description: QuickTime capturing
-Allow capturing from QuickTime Firewire, USB and PCI devices.
-Possibly see: <a href="http://bugzilla.videolan.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=416">Bug 416</a>
-Status: Todo
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-Task
-Difficulty: Hard
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: Windows
-Description: ActiveX control for VLC
- We need an ActiveX version of VLC for IE intergration
-Status: Todo
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-Task
-Difficulty: Easy
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: any
-Description: export paramaters of an input
- 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 />
- - AR<br />
- - size<br />
- - bitrate<br />
- - resolution<br />
- - codecs, etc.<br />
-Status: Todo
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-Task
-Difficulty: Easy
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: any
-Description: SSL http
-SSL encrypted HTTP communication. To support protected VoD.<br />
-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.
-Status: Done
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-Task
-Difficulty: Hard
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: any
-Description: http cookies
-For protected VoD (http://a-select.surfnet.nl)
-Status: Todo
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-Task
-Difficulty: Easy
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: any
-Description: Progressive download playing
-Allow application/vlc mimetype to launch VLC instead of plugin for video file.
-Allows for Progressive download to TEMP folder from browsers. VLC would play the file in the TEMP.
-Status: Todo
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-Task
-Difficulty: Medium
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: any
-Description: rendezvous announces
-Apple released the rendezvous code under a Open Source license now. perhaps it can be used. (It's OpenTalk now btw).<br />
-DMAP protocol announce for videos.
-Status: Todo
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-Task
-Difficulty: Easy
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: any
-Description: SDL vout cleaning
-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.
-Status: Todo
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-Task
-Difficulty: Easy
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: any
-Description: Electronic Program Guide
-Integrate a EPG system into VLC.
-Status: Todo (CryHavoc)
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-Task
-Difficulty: Hard
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: any
-Description: a Time Shifting module
-This module should create TiVo like capabilities for VLC.
-Status: Todo (CryHavoc)
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-Task
-Difficulty: Medium
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: any
-Description: UDP packet reordering
-Currently we ignore every packet that is too late and just wait for a fresh one.
-It would be nice to be able to reorder the packets in the buffer to prevent degredation of the signal.
-Status: Todo
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-Task
-Difficulty: Easy
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: any
-Description: Make vlm more user friendly (setup etc)
-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.
-Status: Todo
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-Task
-Difficulty: Easy
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: any
-Description: Protocol rollover
-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.
-However, how spec compliant can this be?<br />
-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]).
-Status: Todo
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-Task
-Difficulty: Hard
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: any
-Description: NAT issues
-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 ????
-Protocol rollover can be a solution for a lot of these issues.
-Use full DNS names in SDP
-Status: Todo
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-Task
-Difficulty: Medium
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: any
-Description: Gstreamer and Helix API integration
-See if you can support GStreamer and helix plugins in one way or another.
-Status: Todo
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-Task
-Difficulty: Easy
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: any
-Description: Gnome-vfs support
-For integration with smb, sftp and other file sharing/mounting methods
-Status: Todo
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-Task
-Difficulty: Hard
-Platform: any
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Description: Matroska muxer
- We need one :)
-Status: Todo
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-Task
-Difficulty: Medium
-Platform: any
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Description: TTA decoder
- TTA is said to be a fast en good lossless codec. Opensource library
- availabe: http://tta.corecodec.org/
-Status: Todo
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-Task
-Difficulty: Medium
-Platform: any
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Description: Option to automatically deinterlace when needed
- Mkv stores wether a video track is interlaced in the traxk descriptor
- libmpeg2 etc output this information in the header AND on a per-picture basis
-Status: Todo
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-Task
-Difficulty: Easy
-Platform: any
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Description: UDF decoder
-Support for the new XML based subtitle format called UDF
-Status: Todo
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-Task
-Difficulty: Hard
-Platform: any
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Description: Faster deinterlacing
-Our deinterlacers are relatively slow. DScaler has the best Soft deinterlacers out there.
-Unfortunatly it is very Win32 focused.
-Status: Todo
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-Task
-Difficulty: Medium
-Platform: any
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Description: More service discovery modules
-- Port UPnP support from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=89768 <br />
-- libhal based discovery (should be able to find cd,dvd,capture cards,etc etc <br />
-- Perhaps a generalized webpage parser (use user supplied templates to parse
- streams from popular websites )
-Status: Todo
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-Task
-Difficulty: Medium
-Platform: any
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Description: Autoselect a track based on preferred language
-Problems might exist with formats that don't have headers?
-Most part easy to do, because the language info is stored in the ES format structs these days.
-Status: Todo
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-Task
-Difficulty: Easy
-Platform: win32
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Description: file filters in the open dialog
-Have default filters in the open dialog. like:
-All files<br />
-Sound Files( .mp3, .ogg, .wav, .m4a, .m4p)<br />
-Video Files( .avi, .mkv, .mov, .mpg, .m2v, etc)<br />
-Subtitle Files( .idx, .sub, .utf, .srt)<br />
-Status: Todo
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-Task
-Difficulty: Medium
-Platform: Any
-Urgency: Important
-Description: fix subtitle regressions
-Multi-line subtitles are not aligned correctly. Text subtitles don't work
-with 32bpp rgb. Investigate behaviour of subpictures when pausing.
-Status: Todo
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-Task
-Difficulty: Easy to Difficult
-Platform: Any
-Urgency: Important
-Description: Write some developer documentation
-Perhaps a skeletal driver in each of the categories, what they need to
-do, the design decisions, possibilities, or options that drivers in
-a category might implement. If there is a canonical module for each
-category or modules that show the range of options that might be mentioned
-too.