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# Urgency values: Wishlist, Normal, Important, Critical
-Task:
+Task: 0x4e
+Difficulty: Hard
+Urgency: High
+Description: Write stream zones support
+ For random access we need to know where stream descriptors are valid
+ and reside (essentially DVD plugin). -> Meuuh
+Status: Todo
+
+Task: 0x4d
+Difficulty: Hard
+Urgency: Normal
+Description: Write subtitles and stream information in YUV coordinates
+ ... so that they can be displayed even in "overlay" mode.
+Status: Todo
+
+Task: 0x4c
+Difficulty: Medium
+Urgency: Normal
+Description: Update documentation
+ The input structures have undergone a major restructuration with
+ input-II. It might be a good idea to reflect thoses changes in the
+ documentation.
+Status: Todo
+
+Task: 0x4b
+Difficulty: Guru
+Urgency: Low
+Description: Write AVI input plugin
+ .avi files can use MPEG codec, if this is the case it shouldn't be
+ hard to read those files -> Meuuh
+Status: Todo
+
+Task: 0x4a
+Difficulty: Medium
+Urgency: Normal
+Description: Write ES input plugin
+ We need to be able to read .mpg video streams, or .mp* audio streams.
+ More information -> Meuuh
+Status: Todo
+
+Task: 0x49
+Difficulty: Easy
+Urgency: Important
+Description: Write a new buffer allocator
+ Avoid malloc()s by reusing the recently released packets. More
+ information -> Meuuh
+Status: Todo
+
+Task: 0x48
Difficulty: Medium
Urgency: Critical
Description: Fix audio synchro
sizes. See what's wrong and fix it.
Status: Todo
-# input-II tasks, from the least important to the most important
-# (backwards order) :
-
Task: 0x47
Difficulty: Hard
Urgency: Normal
Urgency: Normal
Description: Make input plugins dynamically loadable
With a probe() function, and stuff...
-Status: Todo
+Status: Done 7 Feb 2001 (sam)
Task: 0x45
Difficulty: Guru
Description: Write input_netlist.c
We need an interface to create fixed-size packets (for instance
188 bytes or 2 kB) and avoid using the system malloc().
-Status: Todo
+Status: Done 23 Jan 2001 (henri)
Task: 0x41
Difficulty: Easy
Description: Write input_programs.c
We need a centralized manner of creating new programs, es, and
spawning new decoders.
-Status: Todo
+Status: Done 20 Dec 2000 (Meuuh)
Task: 0x40
Difficulty: Medium
The PS plugin should be able to recover from packet loss, to
read MPEG-1 .mpg files, and to pre-parse the stream (if possible)
to build the ES table. Check what's wrong and fix it. Now.
-Status: Todo
+Status: Done 20 Dec 2000 (Meuuh)
Task: 0x3f
Difficulty: Easy
warning/error:" and \n automatically. The new input already
uses such a behaviour, so we must hurry. It might be necessary
to modify all messages in all modules...
-Status: Todo
-
-# end of input-II tasks, thanks for being with us
+Status: Done 20 Dec 2000 (sam)
Task: 0x3e
Difficulty: Guru
conversion, scaling and displaying. Using them will require a
partial rewrite of the video_output way of handling rendering
and displaying.
-Status: Todo
+Status: Done 18 Dec 2000 (bozo and oct)
Task: 0x39
Difficulty: Medium
When the vlc is launched without a stream, the audio_output thread
eats all memory, probably because there is no msleep() when no data
is available in the audio_output queue.
-Status: Todo
+Status: Done one doesn't know when by some unknown stranger
Task: 0x37
Difficulty: Guru
Task: 0x36
Difficulty: Medium
Urgency: Normal
- Description:
+Description: Enhance the interface
. Finish the new keyboard input interface to support
interfaces that allow modifiers. This will allow the SDL to run
properly.
When compiling a plugin, all symbols seem to be exported, while we
actually just need GetConfig and a few other things: the other
functions are accessed through function pointers.
-Status: Todo
+Status: Done 10 Jan 2001 (sam)
Task: 0x34
Difficulty: Medium
At the moment, plugins to be detected are hardcoded in the code. We
need a better method to get all available plugins, by listing all the
files in selected directories.
-Status: Todo
+Status: Done 7 Jan 2001 (sam)
Task: 0x33
Difficulty: Hard
We need some functions to register plugins, automatically detect which
ones are the most appropriate, as well as ways to express that plugin
A won't work unless plugin B is activated as well.
-Status: Todo
+Status: Done 7 Jan 2001 (sam)
Task: 0x32
Difficulty: Medium
Status: Todo
Task: 0x2a
-Difficulty: Guru
-Urgency: Critical
-Description: Buy a new brain for Sam
- Sam likes to show that he is a good developer, and for a good developer
- hexadecimal notation really rules, though nobody really needs it. In this
- TODO list, Sam has forgotten that 0x29 + 1 != 0x30, but 0x2a ! So, please
- do something, and send your donations to sam@via.ecp.fr. Thanks for him.
-Status: Todo
-
-Task: 0x29
Difficulty: Medium
Urgency: Normal
Description: ALSA audio output support
technically superior to the usual OSS support found in the Linux kernel.
Status: Done ( henri )
-Task: 0x28
+Task: 0x29
Difficulty: Guru
Urgency: Wishlist
Description: Support for RTP
and 2508 (compressed RTP) can be interesting as well.
Status: Todo
-Task: 0x27
+Task: 0x28
Difficulty: Medium
Urgency: Wishlist
Description: Draw a font / support color fonts
font, or adding support for color fonts, would make us gain some time.
Status: Todo
-Task: 0x26
+Task: 0x27
Difficulty: Medium
Urgency: Important
Description: Layer 2 mono support
The vlc doesn't play layer 2 mono yet. We need it since a few of our
streams are in this audio format.
-Status: Todo
+Status: Done 18 Dec 2000 (sam)
-Task: 0x25
+Task: 0x26
Difficulty: Hard
Urgency: Wishlist
Description: MP3 support
The vlc cannot play MPEG1/2 layer 3 yet. It might be nice to fix that.
Status: Todo
-Task: 0x24
+Task: 0x25
Difficulty: Hard
Urgency: Normal
Description: Support for unencapsulated streams
displaying and sound playback, but the streams continues to
be decoded. One will have to do a file implementation as
well as a network implementation.
-Status: Todo
+Status: Done 8 Feb 2001 (Meuuh)
Task: 0x20
Difficulty: Hard
Currently when we read a PS file, it is first translated to TS
because we first had only PS support. Now time has come to get
rid of this ugly kludge and integrate a proper PS input.
-Status: Todo
+Status: Done because of Input II on 5 Dec 2000 (Meuuh)
Task: 0x1f
Difficulty: Hard
The vlc needs the DVD ioctls support as well as the integration
of DeCSS to play DVDs properly. The person doing this should
probably not live in a country where DeCSS has been ruled illegal.
-Status: Todo
+Status: Done 20 Jan 2001 (stef)
Task: 0x1e
Difficulty: Hard
Description: Modularize decoder
Make the decoder a plugin, so that two versions can coexist
without recompilation (MMX and non-MMX).
-Status: Todo
+Status: Done 16 Jan 2001 (sam)
Task: 0x1a
Difficulty: Easy
Urgency: Normal
Description: Make interface more responsive
-Status: Todo
When in "waiting for stream" mode, the interface is refreshed
every 5 seconds. This is too long, and can be confusing for
the user. Make it refresh at least after a keyboard/mouse event.
-Status: Todo
+Status: Done 28 Aug 2000 (oct)
Task: 0x19
Difficulty: Hard
Description: Support MP1 and MP3
The vlc does not support all MPEG1 audio formats yet, nor
does it support MPEG1/2 layer 3.
+Status: Done 18 Dec 2000 (sam) but see 0x25
Task: 0x18
Difficulty: Guru
Description: Support MPEG1 timecodes
The vlc can parse an MPEG1 system stream, but the parsed
PCR values do not seem to be correct. Check what's wrong.
-Status: Todo
+Status: Done because of Input II on 5 Dec 2000 (Meuuh)
Task: 0x12
Difficulty: Medium
When in B&W mode, the chroma part of pictures is decoded,
but it would be more efficient not to decode at all when
the video decoder knows it does not need to.
-Status: Todo
+Status: Done 25 Oct 2000 (reno)
Task: 0x0e
Difficulty: Easy
it might be interesting to remove all floating instructions
in a single thread. The audio decoders are of course not
concerned by this task.
-Status: Todo
+Status: Done (sam)
Task: 0x07
Difficulty: Hard
The video parser has some speed issues currently unexplained:
even though most functions are inlined, it keeps eating more
CPU than it should. This has to be investigated.
-Status: Todo
+Status: Done because of Input II on 5 Dec 2000 (Meuuh)
Task: 0x05
Difficulty: Easy
The vlc uses the same file input code as the vlms (VideoLAN
Mini Server) which has been much improved. Someone should
port modifications done to the vlms back to the vlc.
-Status: Todo
+Status: Done because of Input II on 5 Dec 2000 (Meuuh)
Task: 0x04
Difficulty: Medium
one after the other. We need a smarter way to handle this,
through AddFile(), MoveFile(), etc. functions. input_file
has to be modified to support this as well.
-Status: Todo
+Status: Done 8 Feb 2001 (sam)
Task: 0x02
Difficulty: Medium
the "waiting for stream" message.
Status: Todo
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