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# Urgency values: Wishlist, Normal, Important, Critical
-Task
-Difficulty: Easy
-Urgency: Critical
-Platform: any
-Description: World domination
- We need to dominate the world
-Status: Todo
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-Task
-Difficulty: Guru
-Platform: any
-Urgency: Critical
-Description: Clock Synchro redesign
-We need to adapt the clock synchro to work better with BOTH files and streams.
-Status: Todo
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-Task
-Difficulty: Hard
-Urgency: Critical
-Platform: Mac OS X
-Description: CoreAudio multichannel audio output.
- Convert to <a href="http://www.mat.ucsb.edu:8000/CoreAudio/108">AUHAL</a> based sytem.
-Still no info over S/PDIF output available.
-Outstanding issues:<br />
- - G5 S/PDIF not working<br />
- - G5 PCM not working because S/PDIF is selected by default, even if not connected.<br />
-Status: Todo
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-Task
-Difficulty: Medium
-Platform: Any
-Urgency: Critical
-Description: fix subtitle regressions
-Multi-line subtitles are not aligned correctly.<br />
-Text subtitles don't work with 32bpp rgb.<br />
-Investigate behaviour of subpictures when pausing.<br />
-Negative delaying broken<br />
-Status: Todo
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-Task
-Difficulty: Medium
-Platform: any
-Urgency: Important
-Description: Update matroska demux
- Better Seeking
-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.
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-Task
-Difficulty: Easy
-Platform: Mac OS X
-Urgency: Normal
-Description: Streaming wizard
- Make a Streaming wizard for OS X
-Status: Todo
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-Task
-Difficulty: Easy
-Platform: all
-Urgency: Normal
-Description: configure overview of modules
- configure should report what it will and what it won't build, after it is done running.
-Status: Todo
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-Task
-Difficulty: Hard
-Urgency: Normal
-Platform: any
-Description: Dual window in embed mode
-Windows taskbar reports two windows in the video embed mode.
-Status: Done
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-Task
-Difficulty: Guru
-Urgency: Normal
-Platform: any
-Description: Multi-input
-* Core support done<br />
-* Many demuxers don't support it<br />
-* Need GUI elements
-Status: Assigned to fenrir
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-Task
-Difficulty: Hard
-Urgency: Normal
-Platform: any
-Description: make everything UTF-8 based
- Convert everything that deals with strings to a UTF-8 based system. Not very difficult, but needs a lot of checking, testing and allows for easy breakage.
-Status: Todo
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-Task
-Difficulty: Medium
-Urgency: Normal
-Platform: any
-Description: Rewrite the SAP parser
- The SAP parser is very dirty at the moment, and needs a complete rewrite.
- - caching support<br />
- - timeout support<br />
- - add meta-information to playlist<br />
- - session version support<br />
-Status: Assigned to zorglub (80% done)
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-Task
-Difficulty: Medium
-Urgency: Normal
-Platform: any
-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 />
-70% done.<br />
-Todo:<br />
-- Core support<br />
- - * "Name finder"<br />
- - * "Protocol rollover" node<br />
- - *** Item moving/copying facilities<br />
- - * Ability to save playlist on quit<br />
- - ? Represent navigation structure as "fake items" ? <br />
- - Custom playlist format<br />
-- Helper modules<br />
- - ** ASX and B4S parsers (see below)<br />
- - * Rewrite SLP announce discovery<br />
- - * Live directory representation<br />
-- *** Implement in Skins 2 interfaces<br />
-- wx implementation :<br />
- - ** Support item move/copy<br />
- - * Explorer view<br />
- - * Playlist preferences panel<br />
- - ** Improve iteminfo dialog<br />
-Status: Assigned to zorglub
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-Task
-Difficulty: Easy
-Urgency: Normal
-Platform: any
-Description: Improve bookmarks
- - Put them in the input_item structure to have them persistent
- - Add an input option to play the whole file but starting at a given bookmark
-Status: Todo
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-Task
-Difficulty: Easy
-Urgency: Normal
-Platform: any
-Description: fix ASX playlist parser
-Basically our asx parser is broken. It doesn't handle relative links. It should also URL encode the hrefs (spaces in the url need to be converted to %20 etc). protocol rollover, authors, title's etc etc aren't handled. See <a href="http://www.meetnewplayers.com/bend/Windows%20Media%20-%20Fun%20with%20asx%20files2.htm">this</a> for asx examples. It is still located in the old demux/m3u.c module instead of modules/demux/playlist/
-Status: Todo
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-Task
-Difficulty: Medium
-Urgency: Normal
-Platform: any
-Description: fix current muxers.
-Our avi muxer doesn't produce valid files
-Status: Todo
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-Task
-Difficulty: Easy
-Urgency: Normal
-Platform: any
-Description: 24 bit LPCM
-- Increasingly more DVDs use 24 bit LPCM sound. We should support it.
-Status: Todo
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-Task
-Difficulty: Easy
-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.
-Status: Todo
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-Task
-Difficulty: Hard
-Urgency: Normal
-Platform: Mac OS X
-Description: New OS X preferences
- New preferences for Mac OS X. Current not suited for Mac Users and several
-Pref. elements are broken (hotkeys and int with string desc.).
-Status: Todo
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-Task
-Difficulty: Easy
-Urgency: Normal
-Platform: Mac OS X
-Description: OS X bookmarks window
-We miss a bookmarks window like the wxwidget one.
-Status: Todo
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-Task
-Difficulty: Medium
-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)
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-Task
-Difficulty: Easy
-Urgency: Normal
-Platform: any
-Description: Controlling the mozilla plugin
-The mozilla plugin needs to be better controllable (via javascript). <br />
-- retrieve variable values.<br />
-- open VLC media player<br />
-- default html page to control the plugin<br />
-- XUL controls<br />
-(80% done) see:<br />
-<a href="http://sierra.via.ecp.fr/~zorglub/vlc/plugin/vlc.html">Javascript controls</a>
-<a href="http://sierra.via.ecp.fr/~zorglub/vlc/xul/">XUL controls</a>
-<a href="http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/">MPlayer Mozilla plugin</a>
-Status: Assigned to zorglub
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-Task
-Difficulty: Easy
-Platform: Win32, Linux
-Urgency: Normal
-Description: equalizer fixes
- - 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
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-Task
-Difficulty: Medium
-Platform: Win32, Linux
-Urgency: Normal
-Description: wxWidgets fixes
- - Rename wxWindows to wxWidgets<br />
- - Problems with slider (doesn't go where you click, keep updating while seeking
-?)<br />
- - Reversed arrows
-Status: Todo
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-Task
-Difficulty: Guru
-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
-Status: Todo
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-Task
-Difficulty: Hard
-Urgency: Normal
-Platform: any
-Description: Stream text subtitles
- Find a a way to stream text subtitles, in TS and in RTP.<br />
- Needs testing and validating<br />
- Currently broken.
-Status: 65% (fenrir)
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-Task
-Difficulty: Medium
-Urgency: Normal
-Platform: any
-Description: RTSP server
-Full implementation of a RTSP server. We already have a very basic implementation working but it does need a lot more work. See the following <a href="http://via.ecp.fr/via/ml/streaming/200408/msg00068.html">mail</a> and <a href="http://via.ecp.fr/via/ml/streaming/200410/msg00002.html">mail</a>.
-Status: 90%
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-Task
-Difficulty: Easy
-Urgency: Normal
-Platform: Win32/Linux
-Description: V4L and dshow tuning support
-We need an API that allows us to control the tuning of V4L and dshow TV cards.
-Status: Todo (CryHavoc)
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-Task
-Difficulty: Medium
-Platform: any
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Description: RAR/ZIP/... access
-An access module that would be able to uncompress compressed files.
-Status: Todo
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-Task
-Difficulty: Medium
-Platform: any
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Description: DVTS support
-DV over RTP support. See <a href="http://www.sfc.wide.ad.jp/DVTS/">DVTS homepage</a>
-Status: Todo
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-Task
-Difficulty: Hard
-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).
-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 and gibalou
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-Task
-Difficulty: Medium
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: any
-Description: Full blown OSD system
- In the line of freevo etc.
- (Checkout the correct svn branch)
-Status: 75% done. Assigned to thedj, jpsaman and yoann
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-Task
-Difficulty: Easy
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: any
-Description: GSM decoder
-The <a href="http://kbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/~jutta/toast.html">Toast</a> implementation.
-Status: Todo
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-Task
-Difficulty: Easy
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: any
-Description: AMR decoder
-We will need to find one that isn't based on the reference code.
-Status: Todo
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-Task
-Difficulty: Easy
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: any
-Description: MusePack decoder
-Need I say more? <a href="http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?showtopic=21775&">MPCdec</a>. We are awaiting MPC 7.5 or 8.0 specification which should split the codec from the fileformat.
-Status: Todo
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-Task
-Difficulty: Easy
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: any
-Description: APE decoder
-Need I say more? <a href="http://www.monkeysaudio.com/">Monkeys Audio (APE)</a> website. This codec is currently not GPL compatible. We will have to await a GPL compatible implementation of this.
-Status: Todo
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-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. (and also not-on-the-fly)
-Status: Todo
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-Task
-Difficulty: Guru
-Urgency: Normal
-Platform: any
-Description: Vout redesign
-- 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 />
-- better hotkeys integration
-Status: Todo
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-Task
-Difficulty: Medium
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: any
-Description: Subtitle work
-- better SSA support with postioning, colors etc.<br />
-- 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 provider.<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
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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 />
-Implementation ideas: <br />
- - via variables and callbacks. How to give answers back ?<br />
- - via p_intf->pf_* functions.<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. A first implementation using a custom protocol is being made.
-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 integration
-Status: Done by damienf
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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: 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 />
-Note: the licence is probably not DFSG compatible. Alternative mDNS implementations exist<br />
-DMAP protocol announce for videos.
-Status: Partly done (DAAP only)
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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.<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
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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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