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# Urgency values: Wishlist, Normal, Important, Critical
+Task: 0x5e
+Difficulty: Hard
+Urgency: Wishlist
+Description: All-in-one interface window
+ Find a way for the interface plugin to provide video output capabilities
+ and have it display the stream in the same window.
+Status: Todo
+
+Task: 0x5d
+Difficulty: Guru
+Urgency: Normal
+Description: Win32 port
+ Win32 is probably the most common desktop platform, we should support it
+ as well. Besides, most students at Centrale use Windows and VideoLAN was
+ originally designed for them.
+Status: Done 26 Apr 2001 (gbazin)
+
+Task: 0x5c
+Difficulty: Medium
+Urgency: Wishlist
+Description: Infrared support
+ Write a plugin which listens to the infrared port and sends appropriate
+ commands to the application. This can either be an interface plugin, or,
+ preferably, a new kind of interface-agnostic "command" plugin.
+Status: Done 6 Feb 2002 (Sigmund Augdal)
+
+Task: 0x5b
+Difficulty: Hard
+Urgency: Critical
+Description: Fix the FreeBSD port
+ The FreeBSD port of vlc doesn't run, probably because of a pthread
+ issue. This should be investigated.
+Status: Done 19 Jul 2001 (Øyvind Kolbu <oyvindk@world-online.no>)
+
+Task: 0x5a
+Difficulty: Hard
+Urgency: Wishlist
+Description: Share stream information between vlc and vls
+ vls should send misc TS packets to let us know what the stream PID
+ contain, such as the language, or the subtitle palette.
+Status: Todo
+
+Task: 0x59
+Difficulty: Hard
+Urgency: Important
+Description: Cope with vls/vlc clock jitter
+ The internal clocks of the server and the client are not assured to be
+ in perfect synchronization, which may be annoying when playing a movie.
+ Reduce this jitter by using a well-chosen filter.
+Status: Done 1 May 2001 (henri)
+
+Task: 0x58
+Difficulty: Medium
+Urgency: Critical
+Description: Language and subtitles selection in network input
+ The vls will probably have to be modified as well.
+Status: Done (henri)
+
+Task: 0x57
+Difficulty: Guru
+Urgency: Normal
+Description: Full DVD navigation
+ Once the core DVD navigation features are ready (see item 0x52), port the
+ interface and video output modules so that they can handle it.
+Status: Todo
+
+Task: 0x56
+Difficulty: Hard
+Urgency: Normal
+Description: XVideo video output
+ XVideo is reported to work a bit better than the SDL wrapper on some
+ configurations. Modify the X11 plugin so that it supports XVideo.
+Status: Done 1 Apr 2001 (shane)
+
+Task: 0x55
+Difficulty: Hard
+Urgency: Critical
+Description: Video output IV
+ The new video output should support subtitles both in software and hardware
+ YUV (see item 0x4d). One should also care about XVideo buffers, there is a
+ way to directly decode into them, which would improve performances.
+Status: Done 9 Dec 2001 (sam)
+
+Task: 0x54
+Difficulty: Hard
+Urgency: Wishlist
+Description: Hardware AC3 decoding
+ Some soundcards directly grok Dolby AC3. This would spare a lot of CPU time.
+Status: Done (stef)
+
+Task: 0x53
+Difficulty: Medium
+Urgency: Critical
+Description: Fix AC3 decoder
+ The AC3 decoder still has a few quality issues; fix them, and try to add
+ MMX support to it as well.
+Status: Done 15 June 2001 (reno)
+
+Task: 0x52
+Difficulty: Guru
+Urgency: Normal
+Description: DVD navigation core features
+ We need an interpreter for the DVD virtual machine to make it easier to
+ browse DVDs later.
+Status: Todo
+
+Task: 0x51
+Difficulty: Easy
+Urgency: Normal
+Description: Better subtitle color handling
+ The subtitle palette is pretty ugly for the moment, since we don't parse
+ the color information. Find it in the IFO file and pass the information to
+ the video output.
+Status: Done 15 Mar 2002 (sam)
+
+Task: 0x50
+Difficulty: Hard
+Urgency: Critical
+Description: Multi-angle multi-language support
+ Some DVDs have several languages encoded in the same video stream, we
+ need to properly parse them.
+Status: Done 22 Apr 2001 (stef)
+
+Task: 0x4f
+Difficulty: Hard
+Urgency: Critical
+Description: Fix all known DVD playback issues
+ A few DVDs are still reported not to work at all. Try to find what is
+ causing this, have a more robust DVD input, and list all discs reported
+ to work flawlessly to prevent bug regression.
+Status: Todo
+
Task: 0x4e
Difficulty: Hard
-Urgency: High
+Urgency: Important
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
+ and reside (essentially DVD plugin).
+Status: Done (stef)
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
+Status: Done (sam)
Task: 0x4c
Difficulty: Medium
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
+Status: Done 16 Jul 2001 (Meuuh)
Task: 0x4b
Difficulty: Guru
-Urgency: Low
+Urgency: Normal
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
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
+Status: Done 27 Jun 2001 (Meuuh)
Task: 0x49
Difficulty: Easy
Description: Write a new buffer allocator
Avoid malloc()s by reusing the recently released packets. More
information -> Meuuh
-Status: Todo
+Status: Done 16 Apr 2001 (asmax)
Task: 0x48
-Difficulty: Medium
+Difficulty: Hard
Urgency: Critical
Description: Fix audio synchro
With some audio plugins, the audio stream is late because of buffer
sizes. See what's wrong and fix it.
-Status: Todo
+Status: Done 12 July 2001 (reno)
Task: 0x47
Difficulty: Hard
Urgency: Normal
Description: Make decoders dynamically loadable
-Status: Todo
+Status: Done 05 October 2001 (henri)
Task: 0x46
Difficulty: Hard
Description: Write DVD plugin
We need a DVD plugin which read the device directly, calls DeCSS
(optional) and parse .ifo files.
-Status: Todo
+Status: Done 8 Feb 2001 (stef)
Task: 0x44
Difficulty: Guru
Description: Write input_ext-intf.c
This file will provide functions which allow the interface to change
the pace of reading and change the position in the file.
-Status: Todo
+Status: Done 8 Feb 2001 (Meuuh)
Task: 0x43
Difficulty: Medium
The parser has already been back-ported, but it still lacks the
PSI parser, and currently the functions to read from the network
are yet to be written.
-Status: Todo
+Status: Done 7 Mar 2001 (henri)
Task: 0x42
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: Done one doesn't know when by some unknown stranger
+Status: Done (henri)
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.
Some plugins may have their place inside the main program, such as the
dummy plugin, or the beos plugin under BeOS. We should allow to link
them with the main app.
-Status: Todo
+Status: Done 15 Apr 2001 (sam)
Task: 0x31
Difficulty: Easy
The SPU decoder does not behave very well when a packet is missed or when
it gets the stream at the middle of an SPU packet. Make it more error-
friendly.
-Status: Todo
+Status: Done 26 Feb 2001 (sam)
Task: 0x2b
Difficulty: Hard
The TODO list on the web site hasn't been updated for months. We may
wonder then why the hell to we put a TODO list on the web site ? Maybe
we'd better shoot it in the head, that would make its suffering end.
-Status: Todo
+Status: Done 5 Mar 2001 (sam)
Task: 0x2a
Difficulty: Medium
Description: ALSA audio output support
ALSA is the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture and is believed to be
technically superior to the usual OSS support found in the Linux kernel.
-Status: Done ( henri )
+Status: Done (henri)
Task: 0x29
Difficulty: Guru
vlc currently requires to properly decode a stream. Adding support for
this would require to rewrite the input code, and probably make it a
plugin.
-Status: Todo
+Status: Done 1 Mar 2002 (Meuuh)
Task: 0x24
Difficulty: Guru
XFree 4.0 provides the Xv interface which can do hardware YUV on supported
hardware. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be much documentation
available.
-Status: Todo
+Status: Done 1 Apr 2001 (shane)
Task: 0x22
Difficulty: Medium
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: Done because of Input II on 5 Dec 2000 (Meuuh)
+Status: Done 5 Dec 2000 (Meuuh) because of Input II
Task: 0x1f
Difficulty: Hard
Description: ASCII-art output
For the ones who don't know how to waste their time, they can
try to do an ASCII-art output plugin.
-Status: Todo
+Status: Done 19 Mar 2002 (Sigmund Augdal)
Task: 0x1d
Difficulty: Hard
Description: LPCM decoder
The LPCM decoder is full of stubs, it only parses the stream
but does not decode it. Fix this.
-Status: Todo
+Status: Done 12 Jun 2001 (henri)
Task: 0x1c
Difficulty: Guru
interface for instance. This will require a major rewrite of
the interface, and a solid knowledge of how the vlc internals
work.
-Status: Todo
+Status: Done 11 Feb 2001 (sam)
Task: 0x17
Difficulty: Hard
Description: Add 24bpp YUV
There is no 24bpp support yet. Add it, either in MMX
or in C.
-Status: Todo
+Status: Done 17 Mar 2002 (sam)
Task: 0x16
Difficulty: Medium
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: Done because of Input II on 5 Dec 2000 (Meuuh)
+Status: Done 5 Dec 2000 (Meuuh) because of Input II
Task: 0x12
Difficulty: Medium
Description: Draw a vlc icon
The vlc needs an icon. It should render well in 48x48 but
can be any size.
-Status: Todo
+Status: Done 11 Apr 2001 (sam)
Task: 0x0f
Difficulty: Easy
Description: Rename channel names
Channels should start from 1 (not 0) like on a VCR or TV,
and Channel 0 should be renamed to "Playlist" or similar.
-Status: Todo
+Status: Done
Task: 0x0d
Difficulty: Medium
When the vlc abnormally exits in framebuffer mode, it leaves
the console in an unusable state. This does not happen on
the Matrox framebuffer, but it does on the VESA one.
-Status: Todo
+Status: Done 18 Feb 2001 (sam)
Task: 0x0c
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: Done because of Input II on 5 Dec 2000 (Meuuh)
+Status: Done 5 Dec 2000 (Meuuh) because of Input II
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: Done because of Input II on 5 Dec 2000 (Meuuh)
+Status: Done 5 Dec 2000 (Meuuh) because of Input II
Task: 0x04
Difficulty: Medium
The file vlc.channels should be removed and information
found in it put either into ~/.vlcrc or in another rc
file. Note that this file can be modified by the vlc.
-Status: Todo
+Status: Done 9 Dec 2001 (sam)
Task: 0x03
Difficulty: Hard
The Gnome interface has many stubs and is actually rather
unfunctional. Someone should make the buttons work when
the appropriate hooks exist.
-Status: Todo
+Status: Done 12 Feb 2001 (sam)
Task: 0x01
Difficulty: Hard
Description: MGA YUV
The Matrox acceleration for the vlc does not work yet,
though there are initialization routines in the code.
-Status: Todo
+Status: Done 15 Jan 2002 (sam)
Task: 0x00
Difficulty: Medium
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