X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;f=TODO;h=a3b6b631eb56427169b9ba08ebf453c5f79a243c;hb=fe90bd4ddb6fae9226ae9f4560b03d97a6b83b3b;hp=4623707a56a334db96dc26c949dda4545270223d;hpb=0317810e5cee256dcecc9229e7e442fbc569fed8;p=vlc diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index 4623707a56..a3b6b631eb 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -1,486 +1,679 @@ -# -# vlc tasks -# --------- -# -# +# VLC Todo # Difficulty values: Easy, Medium, Hard, Guru # # Urgency values: Wishlist, Normal, Important, Critical -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. +Task +Difficulty: Easy +Urgency: Critical +Platform: any +Description: World domination + We need to dominate the world 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. +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: 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 +Difficulty: Hard +Urgency: Critical +Platform: Mac OS X +Description: CoreAudio multichannel audio output. + Convert to AUHAL based sytem. +Still no info over S/PDIF output available. +Outstanding issues:
+ - G5 S/PDIF not working
+ - G5 PCM not working because S/PDIF is selected by default, even if not connected.
+Status: Todo -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. - . 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 +Task 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. +Platform: Any +Urgency: Critical +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.
+Negative delaying broken
Status: Todo -Task: 0x34 + +Task Difficulty: Medium +Platform: any 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. +Description: Update matroska demux + Better Seeking Status: Todo -Task: 0x33 -Difficulty: Hard +Task +Difficulty: Easy to Difficult +Platform: Any 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. +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: Mac OS X +Urgency: Normal +Description: Streaming wizard + Make a Streaming wizard for OS X Status: Todo -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. +Task +Difficulty: Easy +Platform: all +Urgency: Normal +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: 0x31 -Difficulty: Easy +Task +Difficulty: Hard 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) +Platform: any +Description: Dual window in embed mode +Windows taskbar reports two windows in the video embed mode. +Status: Done -Task: 0x30 +Task +Difficulty: Guru +Urgency: Normal +Platform: any +Description: Multi-input +* Core support done
+* Many demuxers don't support it
+* Need GUI elements +Status: Assigned to fenrir + +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: 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 +Platform: any +Description: Rewrite the SAP parser + The SAP parser is very dirty at the moment, and needs a complete rewrite. + - caching support
+ - timeout support
+ - add meta-information to playlist
+ - session version support
+Status: Assigned to zorglub (80% done) + +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: 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. Thoughts and ideas (not up-to-date)
+70% done.
+Todo:
+- Core support
+ - * "Name finder"
+ - * "Protocol rollover" node
+ - *** Item moving/copying facilities
+ - * Ability to save playlist on quit
+ - ? Represent navigation structure as "fake items" ?
+ - Custom playlist format
+- Helper modules
+ - ** ASX and B4S parsers (see below)
+ - * Rewrite SLP announce discovery
+ - * Live directory representation
+- *** Implement in Skins 2 interfaces
+- wx implementation :
+ - *** Fix deadlocks
+ - ** Support item move/copy
+ - * Explorer view
+ - * Playlist preferences panel
+ - ** Improve iteminfo dialog
+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: 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 this for asx examples. It is still located in the old demux/m3u.c module instead of modules/demux/playlist/ Status: Todo -Task: 0x27 +Task 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. +Urgency: Normal +Platform: any +Description: fix current muxers. +Our avi muxer doesn't produce valid files Status: Todo -Task: 0x26 -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. +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: 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: 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 +Task 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. +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/ -Status: Done 21 Aug 2000 (octplane) +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:
+Javascript controls +XUL controls +MPlayer Mozilla plugin +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
+ - 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: 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
+ - Problems with slider (doesn't go where you click, keep updating while seeking +?)
+ - 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.
+ Needs testing and validating
+ Currently broken. +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 mail and mail. +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 DVTS homepage 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). +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: 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. -Status: Done 23 Aug 2000 (Meuuh) +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: 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: GSM decoder +The Toast implementation. Status: Todo -Task: 0x1a +Task Difficulty: Easy -Urgency: Normal -Description: Make interface more responsive +Urgency: Wishlist +Platform: any +Description: AMR decoder +We will need to find one that isn't based on the reference code. 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: MusePack decoder +Need I say more? MPCdec. We are awaiting MPC 7.5 or 8.0 specification which should split the codec from the fileformat. 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: APE decoder +Need I say more? Monkeys Audio (APE) website. This codec is currently not GPL compatible. We will have to await a GPL compatible implementation of this. +Status: Todo -Task: 0x18 -Difficulty: Guru +Task +Difficulty: Easy 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: 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: 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: 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.
+ - Use ZVBI library for VBI decoding and image generation
+ - ESTI EN 300 472 for EBU teletext support in DVB
+Perhaps look at Xawtv, dvbtext and other vbi, vtx systems. 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: 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: 0x15 +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: IceCast/ShoutCast serving +This would be a nice thing for the sake of completeness of VLC's streaming capabilities. +Status: Todo + +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. (and also not-on-the-fly) +Status: Todo -Task: 0x14 +Task Difficulty: Guru +Urgency: Normal +Platform: any +Description: Vout redesign +- vout needs distinct splitting into vout_core, vout_window, pic_filter, vout_filter
+- needs 'assistance' 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).
+- better hotkeys integration +Status: Todo + +Task +Difficulty: Medium Urgency: Wishlist -Description: Debug MPEG1 video - The MPEG1 support has been done, but it still crashes. +Platform: any +Description: Subtitle work +- better SSA support with postioning, colors etc.
+- Fix subtitles dialogs (mac done) Status: Todo -Task: 0x13 -Difficulty: Hard +Task +Difficulty: Easy 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: Automatic charset recognition +See if we can use ENCA 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: 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: 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 provider.
+Hints:
+ - In a first step, the need for a dialog provider can be easily omitted.
+ - In theory, only a small amount of classes (6 or so) must be written for OS X, implementing predefined interfaces.
+ - The code of FLTK could be really helpful to identify the correct functions and see how to use them. +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: any +Description: informing user. +Implement a system to:
+ - Alert the user of critical errors (cannot play file). Should be blocking.
+ - Ask the user a question (Are you sure? or Try to Fix index of avi? or Overwrite File?)
+ - 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%
+ - present a user/passwd dialog when we get an authentication failure on a stream.
+Implementation ideas:
+ - via variables and callbacks. How to give answers back ?
+ - via p_intf->pf_* functions.
+Status: Todo + +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. A first implementation using a custom protocol is being made. Status: Todo -Task: 0x10 -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. +Task +Difficulty: Hard +Urgency: Wishlist +Platform: Mac OS X +Description: QuickTime capturing +Allow capturing from QuickTime Firewire, USB and PCI devices. +Possibly see: Bug 416 Status: Todo -Task: 0x0f +Task +Difficulty: Hard +Urgency: Wishlist +Platform: Windows +Description: ActiveX control for VLC + We need an ActiveX version of VLC for IE integration +Status: Done by damienf + +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: 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: 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).
+Note: the licence is probably not DFSG compatible. Alternative mDNS implementations exist
+DMAP protocol announce for videos. +Status: Partly done (DAAP only) + +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: 0x0c +Task +Difficulty: Easy +Urgency: Wishlist +Platform: any +Description: Electronic Program Guide +Integrate a EPG system into VLC. +Status: Todo (CryHavoc) + +Task 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. -Status: Todo +Urgency: Wishlist +Platform: any +Description: a Time Shifting module +This module should create TiVo like capabilities for VLC. +Status: Todo (CryHavoc) -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: 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.
+Also, GUI implementation. +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?
+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: 0x01 +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: 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: More service discovery modules +- Port UPnP support from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=89768
+- libhal based discovery (should be able to find cd,dvd,capture cards,etc etc
+- 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: Splash screen - The vlc needs a splash screen with a vlc logo, instead of - the "waiting for stream" message. +Description: file filters in the open dialog +Have default filters in the open dialog. like: +All files
+Sound Files( .mp3, .ogg, .wav, .m4a, .m4p)
+Video Files( .avi, .mkv, .mov, .mpg, .m2v, etc)
+Subtitle Files( .idx, .sub, .utf, .srt)
Status: Todo +# Do not remove me +Task