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-# vlc tasks
-# ---------
-#
-#
+# VLC Todo
# Difficulty values: Easy, Medium, Hard, Guru
#
# Urgency values: Wishlist, Normal, Important, Critical
-Task: 0x36
-Difficulty: Medium
-Urgency: Normal
-Description: Finish the new keyboard input interface to support
-interfaces that allow modifiers. This will allow the SDL to run
-properly.
-
-Task: 0x35
-Difficulty: Medium
-Urgency: Important
-Description: Fix plugins namespace problem
- 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.
+Task
+Difficulty: Easy
+Urgency: Critical
+Platform: any
+Description: World domination
+ We need to dominate the world
Status: Todo
-Task: 0x34
-Difficulty: Medium
-Urgency: Important
-Description: Fix plugin autoloading
- 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.
+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
-Task: 0x33
+Task
Difficulty: Hard
-Urgency: Important
-Description: Real plugin API
- 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.
+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: 0x32
+Task
Difficulty: Medium
+Platform: any
+Urgency: Important
+Description: Update matroska demux
+ Better Seeking
+Status: Todo
+
+Task
+Difficulty: Easy
+Platform: any
Urgency: Important
-Description: Enable compiled-in plugins
- 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.
+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.
Status: Todo
-Task: 0x31
+Task
+Difficulty: Easy
+Platform: Linux, Win32, Mac OS X
+Urgency: Normal
+Description: Streaming wizard
+ Finish the streaming wizard (85% finished)<br />
+The mac version is at 0%
+Status: Assigned to zorglub
+
+Task
Difficulty: Easy
+Platform: all
Urgency: Normal
-Description: Optimize SPU rendering
- There is an if() in the SPU display routine to double lines when needed,
- whiwh is rather inefficient. It should be removed and put outside
- the main loop.
-Status: Todo.
+Description: configure overview of modules
+ configure should report what it will and what it won't build, after it is done running.
+Status: Todo
-Task: 0x30
+Task
Difficulty: Hard
-Urgency: Important
-Description: SPU error recovery
- 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.
+Urgency: Normal
+Platform: any
+Description: Dual window in embed mode
+Windows taskbar reports two windows in the video embed mode.
+Status: Done
+
+Task
+Difficulty: Guru
+Urgency: Normal
+Platform: any
+Description: External audio file playing
+ Allow several access from an input thread to allow for multi-input<br />
+(90% done) Add GUI elements
+Status: Assigned to fenrir
+
+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
-Task: 0x29
+Task
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.
+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
+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 />
+50% 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 MacOS X and 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
+
+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
-Task: 0x28
-Difficulty: Guru
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Description: Support for RTP
- RTP is a transport protocol for realtime applications. MPEG1 and MPEG2
- versions of RTP are described in RFCs 2038 and 2250. RFCs 1889 (RTP)
- and 2508 (compressed RTP) can be interesting as well.
+Task
+Difficulty: Easy
+Urgency: Normal
+Platform: Win32, Linux
+Description: DVD controls panel
+ A small panel that would popup (below the slider, for example) when playing
+ a DVD with controls such as "up, down, right, left, next chapter, prev chapter, back to menu, ..."
Status: Todo
-Task: 0x27
-Difficulty: Medium
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Description: Draw a font / support color fonts
- The vlc currently uses an ugly font to display its data on the output
- window, and we have a slow hack to make it outlined. Writing our own
- font, or adding support for color fonts, would make us gain some time.
+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
-Task: 0x26
+Task
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.
+Urgency: Normal
+Platform: any
+Description: fix current muxers.
+Our avi muxer doesn't produce valid files
Status: Todo
-Task: 0x25
-Difficulty: Hard
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Description: MP3 support
- The vlc cannot play MPEG1/2 layer 3 yet. It might be nice to fix that.
+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
-Task: 0x24
-Difficulty: Hard
+Task
+Difficulty: Easy
Urgency: Normal
-Description: Support for unencapsulated streams
- Some streams are not encapsulated in PES/PS or TS packets, which the
- 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.
+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: 0x24
-Difficulty: Guru
-Urgency: Wishlist
-Description: Ogg/Vorbis audio decoder support
- 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.
+Task
+Difficulty: Hard
+Urgency: Normal
+Platform: Any
+Description: Rework of the preferences
+ * New information in preferences for a rework of how preferences are sorted in interfaces
+ * New widget types
+ See http://www.via.ecp.fr/via/ml/vlc-devel/200409/msg00409.html
+Status: Assigned to zorglub
+
+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: 0x23
-Difficulty: Guru
+Task
+Difficulty: Easy
Urgency: Normal
-Description: Xv video output support
- 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.
+Platform: Mac OS X
+Description: OS X bookmarks window
+We miss a bookmarks window like the wxwidget one.
Status: Todo
-Task: 0x22
+Task
Difficulty: Medium
Urgency: Normal
-Description: SDL video output support
- The Simple DirectMedia Layer library is a generic API that provides
- YUV acceleration on some platforms. More information can be found
- on http://www.devolution.com/~slouken/SDL/
+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). <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?).
Status: Todo
-Task: 0x21
+Task
Difficulty: Medium
+Platform: Win32, Linux
Urgency: Normal
-Description: Implement pause
- There is no real `pause' command yet. Pausing just stops
- 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.
+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: 0x20
-Difficulty: Hard
-Urgency: Important
-Description: Rewrite input for Program Stream files
- 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.
+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: 0x1f
+Task
Difficulty: Hard
Urgency: Normal
-Description: DeCSS and DVD ioctls
- 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.
+Platform: any
+Description: Stream text subtitles
+ Find a a way to stream text subtitles, in TS and in RTP.<br />
+ Needs testing and validating
+Status: 65% (fenrir)
+
+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%
+
+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: 0x1e
-Difficulty: Hard
+Task
+Difficulty: Medium
+Platform: any
Urgency: Wishlist
-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.
+Description: DVTS support
+DV over RTP support. See <a href="http://www.sfc.wide.ad.jp/DVTS/">DVTS homepage</a>
Status: Todo
-Task: 0x1d
+Task
Difficulty: Hard
-Urgency: Normal
-Description: LPCM decoder
- The LPCM decoder is full of stubs, it only parses the stream
- but does not decode it. Fix this.
-Status: Todo
+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) and an interface.
+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
-Task: 0x1c
-Difficulty: Guru
-Urgency: Important
-Description: Fix field pictures support
- Some MPEG2 streams are interleaved, and the vlc does not support
- this very well. Adding support for them requires an excellent
- knowledge of the MPEG2 papers.
+Task
+Difficulty: Medium
+Urgency: Wishlist
+Platform: any
+Description: Full blown OSD system
+ In the line of freevo etc.
+Status: Assigned to thedj, jpsaman and yoann
+
+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
-Task: 0x1b
-Difficulty: Hard
+Task
+Difficulty: Easy
Urgency: Wishlist
-Description: Modularize decoder
- Make the decoder a plugin, so that two versions can coexist
- without recompilation (MMX and non-MMX).
+Platform: any
+Description: AMR decoder
+We will need to find one that isn't based on the reference code.
Status: Todo
-Task: 0x1a
+Task
Difficulty: Easy
-Urgency: Normal
-Description: Make interface more responsive
+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
- 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.
+
+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
-Task: 0x19
-Difficulty: Hard
-Urgency: Normal
-Description: Support MP1 and MP3
- The vlc does not support all MPEG1 audio formats yet, nor
- does it support MPEG1/2 layer 3.
+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: 0x18
-Difficulty: Guru
+Task
+Difficulty: Medium
Urgency: Wishlist
-Description: Split interface/video_output
- The interface and the vout modules are too dependant, which
- makes it impossible to run the Glide output with the Gnome
- interface for instance. This will require a major rewrite of
- the interface, and a solid knowledge of how the vlc internals
- work.
+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
-Task: 0x17
-Difficulty: Hard
-Urgency: Normal
-Description: Add 24bpp YUV
- There is no 24bpp support yet. Add it, either in MMX
- or in C.
+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
-Task: 0x16
+Task
Difficulty: Medium
-Urgency: Important
-Description: Fix 8bpp YUV
- The 8bpp YUV function is broken, there is some serious
- alpha blending, and it scales pretty badly. Fix it.
-Status: Done 14 Aug 2000 (sam)
+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
-Task: 0x15
+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.
+Status: Todo
+
+Task
+Difficulty: Guru
+Urgency: Wishlist
+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).
+Status: Todo
+
+Task
Difficulty: Medium
-Urgency: Critical
-Description: Fix input_file exit
- input_file does not exit cleanly when the file is finished,
- which makes it impossible to quit the vlc. Fix it.
-Status: Done 21 Aug 2000 (sam)
+Urgency: Wishlist
+Platform: any
+Description: Subtitle work
+- better SSA support with postioning, colors etc.
+- Fix subtitles dialogs (mac done)
+Status: Todo
+
+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
-Task: 0x14
+Task
Difficulty: Guru
Urgency: Wishlist
-Description: Debug MPEG1 video
- The MPEG1 support has been done, but it still crashes.
+Platform: Mac OS X
+Description: skins2
+Port VLC skins to Objective C++ and OSX. Also requires the intf to be a dialog handler.
Status: Todo
-Task: 0x13
+Task
Difficulty: Hard
Urgency: Wishlist
-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.
+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 />
Status: Todo
-Task: 0x12
-Difficulty: Medium
-Urgency: Important
-Description: Fix 32bpp MMX YUV
- The MMX 32bpp YUV function is buggy.
-Status: Done 13 Aug 2000 (sam)
+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.
+Status: Todo
+
+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
-Task: 0x11
+Task
Difficulty: Hard
-Urgency: Normal
-Description: Optimize YUV scaling
- The YUV scaling method does not seem very efficient. Perhaps
- some CPU cycles can be gained by saving some buffers.
+Urgency: Wishlist
+Platform: Windows
+Description: ActiveX control for VLC
+ We need an ActiveX version of VLC for IE intergration
Status: Todo
-Task: 0x10
+Task
Difficulty: Easy
-Urgency: Normal
-Description: Draw a vlc icon
- The vlc needs an icon. It should render well in 48x48 but
- can be any size.
+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
-Task: 0x0f
+Task
Difficulty: Easy
-Urgency: Normal
-Description: Better black&white support
- 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.
+Urgency: Wishlist
+Platform: any
+Description: SSL http
+SSL encrypted HTTP communication. To support protected VoD.<br />
+The question is how to neatly integrate it into our API. Support for all our http handling plugins means complicating the API. Perhaps we should store the SSL context in the p_sys of the vlc_object that is calling it? Tad dangerous, but would keep stuff simple.
+Status: Done
+
+Task
+Difficulty: Hard
+Urgency: Wishlist
+Platform: any
+Description: http cookies
+For protected VoD (http://a-select.surfnet.nl)
Status: Todo
-Task: 0x0e
+Task
Difficulty: Easy
Urgency: Wishlist
-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.
+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
-Task: 0x0d
+Task
Difficulty: Medium
-Urgency: Important
-Description: Framebuffer exit bug
- 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.
+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 />
+DMAP protocol announce for videos.
Status: Todo
-Task: 0x0c
-Difficulty: Hard
-Urgency: Critical
-Description: Fix synchro
- The synchronization algorithm sucks a bit. While it is
- quite efficient on frameskipping on slow machines, it
- is not smart enough on fast machines and does not detect
- when it has enough time for a frame. Perhaps a better
- handling of the dates might help.
+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
-Task: 0x0b
-Difficulty: Medium
-Urgency: Important
-Description: Allow to force synchro
- Add a --force-synchro option to bypass the auto-adaptative
- algorithm present in the vlc. Options should allow displaying
- only I frames, only I and P, or all frames, or some more
- fancy stuff such as half the Bs.
-Status: Done 8 Aug 2000 (sam)
-
-Task: 0x0a
+Task
+Difficulty: Easy
+Urgency: Wishlist
+Platform: any
+Description: Electronic Program Guide
+Integrate a EPG system into VLC.
+Status: Todo (CryHavoc)
+
+Task
+Difficulty: Hard
+Urgency: Wishlist
+Platform: any
+Description: a Time Shifting module
+This module should create TiVo like capabilities for VLC.
+Status: Todo (CryHavoc)
+
+Task
Difficulty: Medium
-Urgency: Important
-Description: Do separate packages
- The plugins can be compiled with specific libraries, such
- as Gnome, GGI, Esound. Putting all of them in the same
- package would require a lot of useless dependencies, thus
- one should do separate packages: a core "vlc" package, and
- "vlc-fb", "vlc-ggi", "vlc-esd" packages depending on the
- core package.
-Status: Done 15 Aug 2000 (sam)
-
-Task: 0x09
+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
+
+Task
Difficulty: Easy
-Urgency: Normal
-Description: Get rid of dumb vlc aliases
- When compiling the vlc, some symlinks to the main app
- are created, such as gvlc, ggivlc, etc. Actually this
- might confuse the user, so they should be removed,
- except perhaps gvlc and fbvlc which follow a usual
- naming scheme.
-Status: Done 8 Aug 2000 (sam)
-
-Task: 0x08
+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. It can be heavily improved by updating the vlm http interface. Using seperate fields for the need paramters of a schedule/source.
+Status: Todo
+
+Task
Difficulty: Easy
-Urgency: Important
-Description: Get rid of floating instructions
- Mixing floating instructions and MMX is seldom a good idea,
- it might be interesting to remove all floating instructions
- in a single thread. The audio decoders are of course not
- concerned by this task.
+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
-Task: 0x07
+Task
Difficulty: Hard
-Urgency: Critical
-Description: Fix VDEC_SMP segfaults
- When compiled to support SMP, the vlc segfaults. The synchro
- code lacks locks, but there might be bugs elsewhere as well.
+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
-Task: 0x06
-Difficulty: Guru
-Urgency: Important
-Description: Optimize video parser
- 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.
+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
-Task: 0x05
+Task
Difficulty: Easy
-Urgency: Important
-Description: Backport vlms input
- 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.
+Urgency: Wishlist
+Platform: any
+Description: Gnome-vfs support
+For integration with smb, sftp and other file sharing/mounting methods
Status: Todo
-Task: 0x04
-Difficulty: Medium
-Urgency: Normal
-Description: Get rid of vlc.channels
- 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.
+Task
+Difficulty: Hard
+Platform: any
+Urgency: Wishlist
+Description: Matroska muxer
+ We need one :)
Status: Todo
-Task: 0x03
-Difficulty: Hard
-Urgency: Important
-Description: Playlist API
- Currently only files given in the command line are played,
- 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.
+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: 0x02
+Task
Difficulty: Medium
-Urgency: Normal
-Description: Better Gnome interface
- The Gnome interface has many stubs and is actually rather
- unfunctional. Someone should make the buttons work when
- the appropriate hooks exist.
+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: 0x01
+Task
Difficulty: Hard
+Platform: any
Urgency: Wishlist
-Description: MGA YUV
- The Matrox acceleration for the vlc does not work yet,
- though there are initialization routines in the code.
+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: 0x00
+Task
Difficulty: Medium
+Platform: any
Urgency: Wishlist
-Description: Splash screen
- The vlc needs a splash screen with a vlc logo, instead of
- the "waiting for stream" message.
+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
+
+Task
+Difficulty: Medium
+Platform: Any
+Urgency: Important
+Description: fix subtitle regressions
+Multi-line subtitles are not aligned correctly. Text subtitles don't work
+with 32bpp rgb. Investigate behaviour of subpictures when pausing.
+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.
+
+# Do not remove me
+Task
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