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# Urgency values: Wishlist, Normal, Important, Critical
-Task:
+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: Todo
+
+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: Todo
+
+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: Todo
+
+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: Important
+Description: Write stream zones support
+ For random access we need to know where stream descriptors are valid
+ 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: Done (sam)
+
+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: Done 16 Jul 2001 (Meuuh)
+
+Task: 0x4b
+Difficulty: Guru
+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
+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.
+Status: Done 27 Jun 2001 (Meuuh)
+
+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: Done 16 Apr 2001 (asmax)
+
+Task: 0x48
+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
-
-# input-II tasks, from the least important to the most important
-# (backwards order) :
+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
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 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
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 (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.
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
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: 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
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: 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
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
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 5 Dec 2000 (Meuuh) because of Input II
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: 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
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
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: 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 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
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
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
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 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: Todo
+Status: Done 5 Dec 2000 (Meuuh) because of Input II
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 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
the "waiting for stream" message.
Status: Todo
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