Status: Todo
Task
-Difficulty: Medium
+Difficulty: Guru
Platform: any
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Description: RAR/ZIP/... access
- An access module that would be able to uncompress compressed files
+Urgency: Critical
+Description: Clock Synchro redesign
+We need to adapt the clock synchro to work better with BOTH files and streams.
Status: Todo
Task
-Difficulty: Easy
+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
+
+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
+
+
+Task
+Difficulty: Medium
Platform: any
-Urgency: Urgent
-Description: proper DVD controls
-Most importantly a proper button that will take you straight to the DVD menu. But also, next/prev chapter should be integrated with next/prev playlistitem.
+Urgency: Important
+Description: Update matroska demux
+ Better Seeking
Status: Todo
+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.
+
Task
Difficulty: Easy
-Platform: Linux, Win32
+Platform: Mac OS X
Urgency: Normal
Description: Streaming wizard
- Finish the streaming wizard (85% finished)
-Status: Assigned to zorglub
+ Make a Streaming wizard for OS X
+Status: Todo
Task
Difficulty: Easy
Task
Difficulty: Hard
-Platform: WinCE
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Description: WinCE port finalizing
-Sources 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
+Urgency: Normal
+Platform: any
+Description: Dual window in embed mode
+Windows taskbar reports two windows in the video embed mode.
+Status: Done
Task
-Difficulty: Hard
+Difficulty: Guru
Urgency: Normal
Platform: any
-Description: Dual window in embed mode
-Windows ttaskbar reports two windows in the video embed mode.
-Status: Assigned to gibalou
+Description: Multi-input
+* Core support done<br />
+* Many demuxers don't support it<br />
+* Need GUI elements
+Status: Assigned to fenrir
Task
-Difficulty: Easy
+Difficulty: Hard
Urgency: Normal
Platform: any
-Description: Multichannel downmixing
-5:1 to Stereo proper downmixing
+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
Task
-Difficulty: Guru
+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)
+
+Task
+Difficulty: Medium
Urgency: Normal
-Description: Demux2 transition
- Complete the transition to demux2. Bughunting and finishing chapter support (80% done)
-Status: Assigned to fenrir
+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 />
+ - *** Fix deadlocks<br />
+ - ** Support item move/copy<br />
+ - * Explorer view<br />
+ - * Playlist preferences panel<br />
+ - ** Improve iteminfo dialog<br />
+Status: Assigned to zorglub
Task
-Difficulty: Guru
+Difficulty: Easy
Urgency: Normal
Platform: any
-Description: Multi-acccess
- Allow several access from an input thread to allow for multi-input (30% done)
-Status: Assigned to fenrir
+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
Task
-Difficulty: Hard
+Difficulty: Easy
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.
+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
Task
Difficulty: Medium
-Urgency: Wishlist
+Urgency: Normal
Platform: any
-Description: no blocking primary interface
-Do away with the strange primary blocking interface. The first interface should be run in the same thread, but not be the blocking call. Load other interfaces in new threads.
+Description: fix current muxers.
+Our avi muxer doesn't produce valid files
Status: Todo
Task
-Difficulty: Medium
-Urgency: Wishlist
+Difficulty: Easy
+Urgency: Normal
Platform: any
-Description: OSD Icons
- Make OSD Icons for Play/Pause/Stop. Integrate them better into the core system.
-Status: Assigned to yoann
+Description: 24 bit LPCM
+- Increasingly more DVDs use 24 bit LPCM sound. We should support it.
+Status: Todo
+
+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
+
+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
+
+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
Task
Difficulty: Medium
-Urgency: Wishlist
+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)
+
+Task
+Difficulty: Easy
+Urgency: Normal
Platform: any
-Description: Full blown OSD system
- In the line of freevo etc.
+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
+
+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
Task
Difficulty: Medium
+Platform: Win32, Linux
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
+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
+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
+
+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)
+
Task
Difficulty: Medium
Urgency: Normal
Platform: any
-Description: Tree playlist
- 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</a>
-Status: Todo
+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%
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)
+
+Task
+Difficulty: Medium
+Platform: any
Urgency: Wishlist
+Description: RAR/ZIP/... access
+An access module that would be able to uncompress compressed files.
+Status: Todo
+
+Task
+Difficulty: Medium
Platform: any
-Description: GSM decoder
-GSM decoder not based on standard reference sources.
+Urgency: Wishlist
+Description: DVTS support
+DV over RTP support. See <a href="http://www.sfc.wide.ad.jp/DVTS/">DVTS homepage</a>
Status: Todo
+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
+
+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
+
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.
+Description: GSM decoder
+The <a href="http://kbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/~jutta/toast.html">Toast</a> implementation.
Status: Todo
Task
Difficulty: Easy
-Urgency: Normal
+Urgency: Wishlist
Platform: any
-Description: 24 bit LPCM
-- Increasingly more DVDs use 24 bit LPCM sound. We should support it.
+Description: AMR decoder
+We will need to find one that isn't based on the reference code.
Status: Todo
Task
Difficulty: Easy
-Urgency: Normal
+Urgency: Wishlist
Platform: any
-Description: LPCM on mac
-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.
+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
Task
Status: Todo
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
+
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.
+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
This would be a nice thing for the sake of completeness of VLC's streaming capabilities.
Status: Todo
-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: Assigned to thedj
-
-Task
-Difficulty: Hard
-Urgency: Critical
-Platform: OSX
-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 />
- - Coreaudio resampler doesn't handle input from lpcm decoder (the samples are too small).
-Status: Todo
-
-Task
-Difficulty: Hard
-Urgency: Normal
-Platform: any
-Description: Stream text subtitles
- Find a a way to stream text subtitles, in TS and in RTP.
- - Find an existing norm
- - Implement it
-(40% done) needs to be tested and validated
-Status: Assigned to fenrir
-
Task
Difficulty: Easy
-Urgency: Normal
-Platform: any
-Description: Fix up text subtitles
-Currently the subtitle dialog boxes are out of date and not really useable. Also we need more files to test and verify the current support, and the rendering of the subs should be sped up quite a bit (issue with outlining?) Other issues should mostly be dealt with after the vout systems are improved.
-Status: Todo
-
-Task
-Difficulty: Hard
-Urgency: Normal
-Platform: any
-Description: Rework spu decoder
- The spu decoder needs some serious work
- - Split/merge for dvd menu highlighting
- - Downscaling for divx/mkv etc
- - Chroma independence (YUVA ???)
- - .sub/.idx support
-Status: todo
-
-Task
-Difficulty: Hard
-Urgency: Normal
-Platform: any
-Description: RTSP server
-Full implementation of a RTSP server.
-Status: fenrir has some code
-
-Task
-Difficulty: Hard
Urgency: Wishlist
Platform: any
-Description: Picture filters
-picture per picture chained filter system that also works on output streams
+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
Task
Difficulty: Guru
-Urgency: Wishlist
+Urgency: Normal
Platform: any
Description: Vout redesign
-- vout needs distinct splitting into vout_core, vout_window, pic_filter, vout_filter
-- needs 'assistence' vout windows (clone filters, goom) etc.
-- 4:3, 16:9, freeform Aspect Ratio
-- cropping and padding (do at OS level, but provide a core call to set it up and configure).
-- OSD at window resolution instead of video res (secondary vout channel)
-- a OSD needs to be bound to a vout stream (no subs on goom vout)
-- 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).
+- 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
Task
Difficulty: Medium
Urgency: Wishlist
Platform: any
-Description: SPU redesign
-- multiple subpicture channels
-- centralized rendering and use of chroma filters
-- centralized scaling support
-(also look at ogt/cvd sub work)
+Description: Subtitle work
+- better SSA support with postioning, colors etc.<br />
+- Fix subtitles dialogs (mac done)
Status: Todo
Task
-Difficulty: Guru
+Difficulty: Easy
Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: Mac OS X
-Description: intf / vout dependency
-The application specific parts of the intf need to be brougth to the VLC application core. A valid NSApplication needs to be created on VLC opening, with the dock and menu hidden/disabled, only being generated on VLC intf loading.
-(70% done) need to fix the interfaces again.<br />
-This is mostly implemented, but some mem leaks are now bothering the macosx part. this should be fixed.
-Status: Assigned to DJ
+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
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 handler. Is slighly dependant on intf/vout dependency todoitem
-Status: Todo
-
-Task
-Difficulty: Hard
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: any
-Description: Equalizer Graphic control
-Now that VLC has an equalizer, we need a way to control it easily from the GUI.
+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
Task
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 time bases or something perhaps. Because how do we know how long this information should be displayed? Also think of buffering 0-100%<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
Task
Urgency: Wishlist
Platform: any
Description: Full H323 Videoconferencing
-VLC isn't really suited for this yet, because it introduces quite large latencies. This should fixed before the H323 can ever come close to working in VLC.
-Status: Todo
-
-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
+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
Task
Possibly see: <a href="http://bugzilla.videolan.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=416">Bug 416</a>
Status: Todo
-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)
-
-Task
-Difficulty: Easy
-Urgency: Normal
-Platform: any
-Description: Controlling the mozilla plugin
-The mozilla plugin needs to be better controllable (via javascript).
-- retrieve variable values.
-- open VLC media player
-- default html page to control the plugin
-- XUL controls
-(80% done) see:
-<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>
-Status: Assigned to zorglub
-
Task
Difficulty: Hard
Urgency: Wishlist
Platform: Windows
Description: ActiveX control for VLC
- We need an ActiveX version of VLC for IE intergration
-Status: Todo
+ We need an ActiveX version of VLC for IE integration
+Status: Done by damienf
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".
- - AR
- - size
- - bitrate
- - resolution
- - codecs, etc.
-Status: Todo
-
-Task
-Difficulty: Easy
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Platform: any
-Description: SSL http
-SSL encrypted HTTP communication. To support protected VoD.
+ 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
Task
Difficulty: Easy
Urgency: Wishlist
Platform: any
-Description: mime-type VLC launching
+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
Task
-Difficulty: Hard
+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: Todo
+Status: Partly done (DAAP only)
Task
Difficulty: Easy
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
-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)
-
Task
Difficulty: Easy
Urgency: Wishlist
Urgency: Wishlist
Platform: any
Description: Make vlm more user friendly (setup etc)
-vlm is kinda a pain to setup if you are not entirely experiences with A/V and streaming or VLC for that matter. It can be heavily improved by updating the vlm http interface.
+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
Task
-Difficulty: Medium
+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.
+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
Task
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
Task
For integration with smb, sftp and other file sharing/mounting methods
Status: Todo
+Task
+Difficulty: Hard
+Platform: any
+Urgency: Wishlist
+Description: Matroska muxer
+ We need one :)
+Status: Todo
+
+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
+
+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
+
+Task
+Difficulty: Easy
+Platform: any
+Urgency: Wishlist
+Description: UDF decoder
+Support for the new XML based subtitle format called UDF
+Status: Todo
+
+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
+
+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
+
+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
+
+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
+
+
# Do not remove me
Task
projects / vlc / blobdiff