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# Urgency values: Wishlist, Normal, Important, Critical
+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: Todo
+
+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: Todo
+
+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: Todo
+
+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: Todo
+
+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: Done 12 July 2001 (reno)
+
+Task: 0x47
+Difficulty: Hard
+Urgency: Normal
+Description: Make decoders dynamically loadable
+Status: Todo
+
+Task: 0x46
+Difficulty: Hard
+Urgency: Normal
+Description: Make input plugins dynamically loadable
+ With a probe() function, and stuff...
+Status: Done 7 Feb 2001 (sam)
+
+Task: 0x45
+Difficulty: Guru
+Urgency: Normal
+Description: Write DVD plugin
+ We need a DVD plugin which read the device directly, calls DeCSS
+ (optional) and parse .ifo files.
+Status: Done 8 Feb 2001 (stef)
+
+Task: 0x44
+Difficulty: Guru
+Urgency: Important
+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: Done 8 Feb 2001 (Meuuh)
+
+Task: 0x43
+Difficulty: Medium
+Urgency: Important
+Description: Write TS support
+ 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: Done 7 Mar 2001 (henri)
+
+Task: 0x42
+Difficulty: Medium
+Urgency: Important
+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: Done 23 Jan 2001 (henri)
+
+Task: 0x41
+Difficulty: Easy
+Urgency: Important
+Description: Write input_programs.c
+ We need a centralized manner of creating new programs, es, and
+ spawning new decoders.
+Status: Done 20 Dec 2000 (Meuuh)
+
+Task: 0x40
+Difficulty: Medium
+Urgency: Important
+Description: Fix the PS plugin
+ 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: Done 20 Dec 2000 (Meuuh)
+
+Task: 0x3f
+Difficulty: Easy
+Urgency: Critical
+Description: Enhance intf_*Msg
+ The intf_*Msg functions could be more clever : add "mymodule
+ 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: Done 20 Dec 2000 (sam)
+
+Task: 0x3e
+Difficulty: Guru
+Urgency: Critical
+Description: Fix backwards moves
+ Sometimes the frames seem to go backwards for a short period of
+ time. This is due to the output methods and is known to happen
+ with the x11 and SDL plugins.
+Status: Done 27 Nov 2000 (Meuuh)
+
+Task: 0x3d
+Difficulty: Easy
+Urgency: Normal
+Description: Have more statistics messages displayed
+ The vlc has structures to keep track of the interesting
+ events, but there is no way to print these structures. In stats
+ mode, we should print these structures regularly, or at quit
+ time (whichever is the more convenient).
+Status: Done 27 Nov 2000 (Meuuh)
+
+Task: 0x3c
+Difficulty: Easy
+Urgency: Important
+Description: Separate optimizations from debug mode
+ We sometimes want to have the debug mode (which writes an
+ interesting log of debug messages) along with the compiler
+ optimizations (which allow decoding of more than 2 fps).
+Status: Done 18 Nov 2000 (Meuuh)
+
+Task: 0x3b
+Difficulty: Easy
+Urgency: Important
+Description: Write intf_WarnMsg and intf_StatMsg
+ We have intf_ErrMsg to display fatal errors, but warnings are
+ drowned in an ocean of unreadable intf_DbgMsg. Same for
+ statistics messages.
+Status: Done 23 Nov 2000 (Stef)
+
+Task: 0x3a
+Difficulty: Hard
+Urgency: Important
+Description: Support SDL Overlay
+ The SDL livrary has routines to use the video board to do the YUV
+ conversion, scaling and displaying. Using them will require a
+ partial rewrite of the video_output way of handling rendering
+ and displaying.
+Status: Done 18 Dec 2000 (bozo and oct)
+
+Task: 0x39
+Difficulty: Medium
+Urgency: Wishlist
+Description: Rewrite the font display routines
+ The current font display routines aren't powerful enough. There
+ should be a way to display a big String at once, without needing
+ to compute the size of the string and its coordinates beforehand.
+Status: Todo
+
+Task: 0x38
+Difficulty: Medium
+Urgency: Important
+Description: Make aout eat less CPU
+ 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: Done (henri)
+
+Task: 0x37
+Difficulty: Guru
+Urgency: Important
+Description: Fix motion compensation bug
+ The motion compensation still has a small bug which can be well
+ noticed when there is a sudden color change, a few blocks remain
+ visible on the screen.
+Status: Done 27 Aug 2000 (Meuuh)
+
+Task: 0x36
+Difficulty: Medium
+Urgency: Normal
+Description: Enhance the interface
+ . Finish the new keyboard input interface to support
+ interfaces that allow modifiers. This will allow the SDL to run
+ properly.
+ . Here are some details:
+ Allow any interface to have its own set of keys:
+ - allow the 'discovery' of the main interface of the binding
+ created by each interface:
+ what key ("control-C", what action (INTF...))
+ - extend the interface by a specific struct (meta+modifier+ascii)
+ - implement an interface specific getKey function.
+Status: Todo
+
+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.
+Status: Done 10 Jan 2001 (sam)
+
+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.
+Status: Done 7 Jan 2001 (sam)
+
+Task: 0x33
+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.
+Status: Done 7 Jan 2001 (sam)
+
+Task: 0x32
+Difficulty: Medium
+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.
+Status: Done 15 Apr 2001 (sam)
+
+Task: 0x31
+Difficulty: Easy
+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: Done 26 Aug 2000 (henri)
+
+Task: 0x30
+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.
+Status: Done 26 Feb 2001 (sam)
+
+Task: 0x2b
+Difficulty: Hard
+Urgency: Wishlist
+Description: Shoot the TODO list on the web site
+ 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: Done 5 Mar 2001 (sam)
+
+Task: 0x2a
+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)
+
+Task: 0x29
+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.
+Status: Todo
+
+Task: 0x28
+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.
+Status: Todo
+
+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: Done 18 Dec 2000 (sam)
+
+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: 0x25
+Difficulty: Hard
+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.
+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.
+Status: Todo
+
+Task: 0x23
+Difficulty: Guru
+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.
+Status: Done 1 Apr 2001 (shane)
+
+Task: 0x22
+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/
+Status: Done 21 Aug 2000 (octplane)
+
Task: 0x21
Difficulty: Medium
Urgency: Normal
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
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.
-Status: Todo
+Status: Done 23 Aug 2000 (Meuuh)
Task: 0x1b
Difficulty: Hard
Urgency: Wishlist
-Description: modularize decoder
+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: 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: Todo
+Status: Done 21 Aug 2000 (sam)
Task: 0x14
Difficulty: Guru
Urgency: Wishlist
Description: Debug MPEG1 video
The MPEG1 support has been done, but it still crashes.
-Status: Todo
+Status: Done 23 Oct 2000 (Meuuh)
Task: 0x13
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
Task: 0x10
Difficulty: Easy
Urgency: Normal
-Description: vlc icon
+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
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.
-Status: Todo
+Status: Done 13 Nov 2000 (Meuuh)
Task: 0x0b
Difficulty: Medium
one should do separate packages: a core "vlc" package, and
"vlc-fb", "vlc-ggi", "vlc-esd" packages depending on the
core package.
-Status: Todo
+Status: Done 15 Aug 2000 (sam)
Task: 0x09
Difficulty: Easy
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
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.
-Status: Todo
+Status: Done 16 Nov 2000 (Meuuh)
Task: 0x06
Difficulty: Guru
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
Urgency: Important
-Description: vlms backport
+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.
-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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