X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=353a04f1e17f8356a1d69afb289b0cd166e29653;hb=bec589af3d0359470566d1013d119dd079d81374;hp=33a676a55cf775d98955cb4cd820398fc9139aea;hpb=27fdf30eca90f150016863b225acdf81bb0bc8ce;p=vlc diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index 33a676a55c..353a04f1e1 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -7,6 +7,191 @@ # # Urgency values: Wishlist, Normal, Important, Critical +Task: 0x4e +Difficulty: Hard +Urgency: High +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 + +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: Todo + +Task: 0x4b +Difficulty: Guru +Urgency: Low +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. + More information -> Meuuh +Status: Todo + +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: Todo + +Task: 0x48 +Difficulty: Medium +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: Todo + +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: Todo + +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: Todo + +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: Todo + +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 @@ -14,7 +199,7 @@ 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: Todo +Status: Done one doesn't know when by some unknown stranger Task: 0x37 Difficulty: Guru @@ -28,9 +213,17 @@ Status: Done 27 Aug 2000 (Meuuh) 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. +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 @@ -40,7 +233,7 @@ 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: Todo +Status: Done 10 Jan 2001 (sam) Task: 0x34 Difficulty: Medium @@ -49,7 +242,7 @@ 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: Todo +Status: Done 7 Jan 2001 (sam) Task: 0x33 Difficulty: Hard @@ -58,7 +251,7 @@ 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: Todo +Status: Done 7 Jan 2001 (sam) Task: 0x32 Difficulty: Medium @@ -87,15 +280,24 @@ Description: SPU error recovery friendly. Status: Todo -Task: 0x29 +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: Todo + +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: Todo +Status: Done ( henri ) -Task: 0x28 +Task: 0x29 Difficulty: Guru Urgency: Wishlist Description: Support for RTP @@ -104,7 +306,7 @@ Description: Support for RTP and 2508 (compressed RTP) can be interesting as well. Status: Todo -Task: 0x27 +Task: 0x28 Difficulty: Medium Urgency: Wishlist Description: Draw a font / support color fonts @@ -113,22 +315,22 @@ Description: Draw a font / support color fonts font, or adding support for color fonts, would make us gain some time. Status: Todo -Task: 0x26 +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: Todo +Status: Done 18 Dec 2000 (sam) -Task: 0x25 +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: 0x24 +Task: 0x25 Difficulty: Hard Urgency: Normal Description: Support for unencapsulated streams @@ -173,7 +375,7 @@ Description: Implement pause 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 @@ -182,7 +384,7 @@ 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. -Status: Todo +Status: Done because of Input II on 5 Dec 2000 (Meuuh) Task: 0x1f Difficulty: Hard @@ -191,7 +393,7 @@ 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. -Status: Todo +Status: Done 20 Jan 2001 (stef) Task: 0x1e Difficulty: Hard @@ -224,17 +426,16 @@ Urgency: Wishlist 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 @@ -242,6 +443,7 @@ 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. +Status: Done 18 Dec 2000 (sam) but see 0x25 Task: 0x18 Difficulty: Guru @@ -283,7 +485,7 @@ 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 @@ -291,7 +493,7 @@ 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. -Status: Todo +Status: Done because of Input II on 5 Dec 2000 (Meuuh) Task: 0x12 Difficulty: Medium @@ -323,7 +525,7 @@ 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. -Status: Todo +Status: Done 25 Oct 2000 (reno) Task: 0x0e Difficulty: Easy @@ -351,7 +553,7 @@ Description: Fix synchro 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 @@ -394,7 +596,7 @@ Description: Get rid of floating instructions 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 @@ -402,7 +604,7 @@ 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. -Status: Todo +Status: Done 16 Nov 2000 (Meuuh) Task: 0x06 Difficulty: Guru @@ -411,7 +613,7 @@ 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. -Status: Todo +Status: Done because of Input II on 5 Dec 2000 (Meuuh) Task: 0x05 Difficulty: Easy @@ -420,7 +622,7 @@ 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 because of Input II on 5 Dec 2000 (Meuuh) Task: 0x04 Difficulty: Medium @@ -439,7 +641,7 @@ Description: Playlist API 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 @@ -466,4 +668,3 @@ Description: Splash screen the "waiting for stream" message. Status: Todo -