We need to adapt the clock synchro to work better with BOTH files and streams.
Status: Todo
+Task
+Difficulty: Easy
+Platform: any
+Urgency: Normal
+Description: cli option for audio-channels
+It's currently not possible to force VLC from stereo to mono mode, or from stereo to reverse stereo or dolby mode. It's one of the few options in VLC that can not yet be forced from Preferences or the commandline.
+Status: Todo
+
+Task
+Difficulty: Hard
+Platform: any
+Urgency: Wishlist
+Description: Java wrapping/bindings
+Allow java apps to use VLC perhaps? Several people have suggested something like this.
+Status: Todo
+
+Task
+Difficulty: Easy
+Platform: win32/macosx
+Urgency: Normal
+Description: OS contextual menu support
+Create contextual menus for the OS so you can play or enqueue files from the Finder/Explorer directly into VLC. Much like with for instance Winamp.
+Status: Todo
+
Task
Difficulty: Hard
Urgency: Critical
Task
Difficulty: Medium
-Platform: any
-Urgency: Important
-Description: Update matroska demux
- Better Seeking
+Platform: Any
+Urgency: Critical
+Description: fix subtitle regressions
+Investigate behaviour of subpictures when pausing.<br />
Status: Todo
+
Task
-Difficulty: Easy
-Platform: any
+Difficulty: Easy to Difficult
+Platform: Any
Urgency: Important
-Description: proper DVD controls
-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.
-Status: Todo
+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.
Task
Difficulty: Easy
-Platform: Linux, Win32, Mac OS X
+Platform: Mac OS X
Urgency: Normal
Description: Streaming wizard
- Finish the streaming wizard (85% finished)<br />
-The mac version is at 0%
-Status: Assigned to zorglub
+ Make a Streaming wizard for OS X
+Status: Todo
Task
Difficulty: Easy
Difficulty: Guru
Urgency: Normal
Platform: any
-Description: External audio file playing
- Allow several access from an input thread to allow for multi-input<br />
-(90% done) Add GUI elements
+Description: Multi-input
+* Many demuxers don't support it<br />
+* Need GUI elements
Status: Assigned to fenrir
Task
Description: Playlist II
A hierarchized playlist structure, eventually using a media library.
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 />
-50% done.<br />
+70% done.<br />
Todo:<br />
- Core support<br />
- - *** Improve random mode and fix loop<br />
- * "Name finder"<br />
- * "Protocol rollover" node<br />
- *** Item moving/copying facilities<br />
- ** ASX and B4S parsers (see below)<br />
- * Rewrite SLP announce discovery<br />
- * Live directory representation<br />
-- *** Implement in MacOS X and Skins 2 interfaces<br />
+- *** Implement in Skins 2 interfaces<br />
- wx implementation :<br />
- - *** Investigate Win32 crash<br />
- ** Support item move/copy<br />
- * Explorer view<br />
- - * Cleverer update using i_serial<br />
- * Playlist preferences panel<br />
- ** Improve iteminfo dialog<br />
Status: Assigned to zorglub
- Add an input option to play the whole file but starting at a given bookmark
Status: Todo
-Task
-Difficulty: Easy
-Urgency: Normal
-Platform: Win32, Linux
-Description: DVD controls panel
- A small panel that would popup (below the slider, for example) when playing
- a DVD with controls such as "up, down, right, left, next chapter, prev chapter, back to menu, ..."
-Status: Todo
-
Task
Difficulty: Easy
Urgency: Normal
Difficulty: Medium
Urgency: Normal
Platform: any
-Description: fix current muxers.
-Our avi muxer doesn't produce valid files
-Status: Todo
-
-Task
-Difficulty: Easy
-Urgency: Normal
-Platform: any
-Description: 24 bit LPCM
-- Increasingly more DVDs use 24 bit LPCM sound. We should support it.
+Description: fix current muxers.<br />
+Our avi muxer doesn't produce valid files<br />
Status: Todo
Task
Urgency: Normal
Platform: Mac OS X
Description: LPCM
-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.
+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.<br />
+This is now fixed, but there is a problem with buffers in the resampler that now sometimes overflows (or rather get changed after they are released). A good method for reproduction seems to be running Finding Nemo for a minute or 8.
Status: Todo
-Task
-Difficulty: Hard
-Urgency: Normal
-Platform: Any
-Description: Rework of the preferences
- * New information in preferences for a rework of how preferences are sorted in interfaces
- * New widget types
- See http://www.via.ecp.fr/via/ml/vlc-devel/200409/msg00409.html
-Status: Assigned to zorglub
-
Task
Difficulty: Hard
Urgency: Normal
Urgency: Normal
Platform: Mac OS X
Description: Finish Mac Mozilla plugin
-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.
-Status: Halfway (stalled)
+The Mac mozilla plugin needs some more work to be useable. Mostly done now,
+needs testing.
+Status: 90%
Task
Difficulty: Easy
Platform: Win32, Linux
Urgency: Normal
Description: equalizer fixes
- - Gray out "reset to defaults" for audio equalizer when disabled<br />
+ - Gray out "reset to defaults" for audio equalizer when disabled<br />
- Once audio equalizer is disabled, it doesn't enable the first
try when you select from main menu. It only works a 2nd change
(enable flag not properly set?).
+ To have this work correctly, the best solution is to remove knowledge of
+ presets from the filter and give it to ... core ?
Status: Todo
Task
- Rename wxWindows to wxWidgets<br />
- Problems with slider (doesn't go where you click, keep updating while seeking
?)<br />
- - Reversed arrows
Status: Todo
Task
Urgency: Normal
Platform: Mac OS X
Description: SVCD support
-libcdio needs to be ported to the Mac to support the cddax and vcdx modules for proper SVCD support
+Support the cddax and vcdx modules for proper SVCD support. libcdio seems to work a tad flacky under OS X. Cause is unknown.
Status: Todo
Task
Platform: any
Description: Stream text subtitles
Find a a way to stream text subtitles, in TS and in RTP.<br />
- Needs testing and validating
+ Needs testing and validating<br />
+ Currently broken.
Status: 65% (fenrir)
Task
Platform: WinCE
Urgency: Wishlist
Description: WinCE port finalizing
-The WinCE port is already quite functional but we still miss a GAPI video output (GDI works but is slow) and an interface.
-Some code already exists for that (http://sourceforge.net/projects/vlcpocketpc/) and would need to be imported into the VLC source tree.
-Downloads should be added to the main vlc download page. We need an icon for this.
-Status: Assigned to MixerAnderson
+The WinCE port needs a little maturing and optimization.
+Status: Assigned to gibalou
Task
Difficulty: Medium
Platform: any
Description: Full blown OSD system
In the line of freevo etc.
-Status: Assigned to thedj, jpsaman and yoann
+ (Checkout the correct svn branch)
+Status: 80% done. Assigned to thedj, jpsaman and yoann
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.
+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. (and also not-on-the-fly)<br />
+- ideas for new filters are a greenwall filter, and a goom filter that mixes goom effects into the vout.
Status: Todo
Task
Difficulty: Guru
-Urgency: Wishlist
+Urgency: Normal
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).
+- vout needs distinct splitting into vout_core, vout_window, pic_filter, vout_filter<br />
+- needs 'assistance' vout windows (clone filters, goom) etc.<br />
+- 4:3, 16:9, freeform Aspect Ratio<br />
+- cropping and padding (do at OS level, but provide a core call to set it up and configure).<br />
+- OSD at window resolution instead of video res (secondary vout channel)<br />
+- a OSD needs to be bound to a vout stream (no subs on goom vout)<br />
+- 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).<br />
+- Allow a vout to reuse a window by resizing it (instead of closing and opening).
+- better hotkeys integration
Status: Todo
Task
Urgency: Wishlist
Platform: any
Description: Subtitle work
-- better SSA support with postioning, colors etc.
-- Fix subtitles dialogs (mac done)
+- better SSA support with postioning, colors etc.<br />
Status: Todo
Task
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.
+Port VLC skins to Objective C++ and OSX. Also requires the intf to be a dialog provider. There is already some code in the VLC sourcetree.<br />
+Hints:<br />
+ - In a first step, the need for a dialog provider can be easily omitted.<br />
+ - In theory, only a small amount of classes (6 or so) must be written for OS X, implementing predefined interfaces.<br />
+ - The code of <a href="http://www.fltk.org">FLTK</a> could be really helpful to identify the correct functions and see how to use them.
Status: Todo
Task
- 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 />
+Implementation ideas: <br />
+ - via variables and callbacks. How to give answers back ?<br />
+ - via p_intf->pf_* functions.<br />
Status: Todo
Task
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.
+We also will need SIP support. A first implementation using a custom protocol is being made.
Status: Todo
Task
Possibly see: <a href="http://bugzilla.videolan.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=416">Bug 416</a>
Status: Todo
-Task
-Difficulty: Hard
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: Windows
-Description: ActiveX control for VLC
- We need an ActiveX version of VLC for IE intergration
-Status: Todo
-
Task
Difficulty: Easy
Urgency: Wishlist
Status: Todo
Task
-Difficulty: Easy
+Difficulty: Hard
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
+Description: statistics
+Count packetloss, bandwith usage and fps for statistics.<br />
+Status: Todo
Task
Difficulty: Hard
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 />
+Note: the licence is probably not DFSG compatible. Alternative mDNS implementations exist<br />
DMAP protocol announce for videos.
-Status: Todo
+Status: Partly done (DAAP only)
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.
+vlm is kinda a pain to setup if you are not entirely experienced with A/V and streaming or VLC for that matter.<br />
+It can be heavily improved by updating the vlm http interface. Using seperate fields for the need paramters of a schedule/source.<br />
+Also, GUI implementation.
Status: Todo
Task
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 />
+- 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
-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
-
Task
Difficulty: Easy
Platform: win32
Subtitle Files( .idx, .sub, .utf, .srt)<br />
Status: Todo
-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
-
-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.
# Do not remove me
Task