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: Todo
+Status: Done 26 Apr 2001 (gbazin)
Task: 0x5c
Difficulty: Medium
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: Todo
+Status: Done 6 Feb 2002 (Sigmund Augdal)
Task: 0x5b
Difficulty: Hard
Description: Fix the FreeBSD port
The FreeBSD port of vlc doesn't run, probably because of a pthread
issue. This should be investigated.
-Status: Todo
+Status: Done 19 Jul 2001 (Øyvind Kolbu <oyvindk@world-online.no>)
Task: 0x5a
Difficulty: Hard
Urgency: Critical
Description: Language and subtitles selection in network input
The vls will probably have to be modified as well.
-Status: Todo
+Status: Done (henri)
Task: 0x57
Difficulty: Guru
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: Todo
+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: Todo
+Status: Done (stef)
Task: 0x53
Difficulty: Medium
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: Todo
+Status: Done 15 June 2001 (reno)
Task: 0x52
Difficulty: Guru
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: Todo
+Status: Done 15 Mar 2002 (sam)
Task: 0x50
Difficulty: Hard
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
+ and reside (essentially DVD plugin).
Status: Done (stef)
Task: 0x4d
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: 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: 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
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
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: 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: 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
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
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