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
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
+Status: Done (collective work)
Task: 0x59
Difficulty: Hard
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: Todo
+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: Todo
+Status: Done (henri)
Task: 0x57
Difficulty: Guru
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
+Status: In the works (stef)
Task: 0x56
-Difficulty: Important
+Difficulty: Hard
Urgency: Normal
Description: XVideo video output
XVideo is reported to work a bit better than the SDL wrapper on some
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
Description: DVD navigation core features
We need an interpreter for the DVD virtual machine to make it easier to
browse DVDs later.
-Status: Todo
+Status: In the works (stef)
Task: 0x51
Difficulty: Easy
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
Description: Multi-angle multi-language support
Some DVDs have several languages encoded in the same video stream, we
need to properly parse them.
-Status: Todo
+Status: Done 22 Apr 2001 (stef)
Task: 0x4f
Difficulty: Hard
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
+Status: Done (collective work)
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
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
+Status: Done 23 Apr 2002 (fenrir)
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.
- 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: Hard
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
Urgency: Wishlist
Description: MP3 support
The vlc cannot play MPEG1/2 layer 3 yet. It might be nice to fix that.
-Status: Todo
+Status: Done 10 May 2002 (fenrir)
Task: 0x25
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
The Ogg/Vorbis audio format is a free alternative to the patent-encumbered
MP3 format. The system packets are quite different than the MPEG ones, so
adding support for it would require a lot of code rewrite.
-Status: Todo
+Status: Done 24 Nov 2002 (gbazin)
Task: 0x23
Difficulty: Guru
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
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: Optimize YUV scaling
The YUV scaling method does not seem very efficient. Perhaps
some CPU cycles can be gained by saving some buffers.
-Status: Todo
+Status: Done (sam) because of vout 4
Task: 0x10
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
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
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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