From 65d341df9fe5fe7d51100868768112b1c2f22b6d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sam Hocevar Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 23:33:26 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] =?utf8?q?=20.=20chang=EF=BF=BD=20l'ordre=20des=20t?= =?utf8?q?=EF=BF=BDches?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit --- TODO | 413 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------------- 1 file changed, 207 insertions(+), 206 deletions(-) diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index cde7a788a2..e259cb6d6a 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -7,145 +7,155 @@ # # Urgency values: Wishlist, Normal, Important, Critical -Task: 0x00 +Task: 0x21 Difficulty: Medium -Urgency: Wishlist -Description: Splash screen - The vlc needs a splash screen with a vlc logo, instead of - the "waiting for stream" message. +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. Status: Todo -Task: 0x01 +Task: 0x20 Difficulty: Hard -Urgency: Wishlist -Description: MGA YUV - The Matrox acceleration for the vlc does not work yet, - though there are initialization routines in the code. +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. Status: Todo -Task: 0x02 -Difficulty: Medium +Task: 0x1f +Difficulty: Hard 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. +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 -Task: 0x03 +Task: 0x1e 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. +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. Status: Todo -Task: 0x04 -Difficulty: Medium +Task: 0x1d +Difficulty: Hard 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. -Status: Todo - -Task: 0x05 -Difficulty: Easy -Urgency: Important -Description: vlms backport - 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. +Description: LPCM decoder + The LPCM decoder is full of stubs, it only parses the stream + but does not decode it. Fix this. Status: Todo -Task: 0x06 +Task: 0x1c 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. +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: Todo -Task: 0x07 +Task: 0x1b 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 +Description: modularize decoder + Make the decoder a plugin, so that two versions can coexist + without recompilation (MMX and non-MMX). Status: Todo -Task: 0x08 +Task: 0x1a 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: 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 -Task: 0x09 -Difficulty: Easy +Task: 0x19 +Difficulty: Hard 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) +Description: Support MP1 and MP3 + The vlc does not support all MPEG1 audio formats yet, nor + does it support MPEG1/2 layer 3. -Task: 0x0a +Task: 0x18 +Difficulty: Guru +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. +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. +Status: Todo + +Task: 0x16 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. +Description: Fix 8bpp YUV + The 8bpp YUV function is broken, there is some serious + alpha blending, and it scales pretty badly. Fix it. Status: Todo -Task: 0x0b +Task: 0x15 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) +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: Todo -Task: 0x0c +Task: 0x14 +Difficulty: Guru +Urgency: Wishlist +Description: Debug MPEG1 video + The MPEG1 support has been done, but it still crashes. +Status: Todo + +Task: 0x13 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. +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 -Task: 0x0d +Task: 0x12 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. +Description: Fix 32bpp MMX YUV + The MMX 32bpp YUV function is buggy. Status: Todo -Task: 0x0e +Task: 0x11 +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. +Status: Todo + +Task: 0x10 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. +Urgency: Normal +Description: vlc icon + The vlc needs an icon. It should render well in 48x48 but + can be any size. Status: Todo Task: 0x0f @@ -157,154 +167,145 @@ Description: Better black&white support the video decoder knows it does not need to. Status: Todo -Task: 0x10 +Task: 0x0e Difficulty: Easy -Urgency: Normal -Description: vlc icon - The vlc needs an icon. It should render well in 48x48 but - can be any size. -Status: Todo - -Task: 0x11 -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 +Description: Rename channel names + Channels should start from 1 (not 0) like on a VCR or TV, + and Channel 0 should be renamed to "Playlist" or similar. Status: Todo -Task: 0x12 +Task: 0x0d Difficulty: Medium Urgency: Important -Description: Fix 32bpp MMX YUV - The MMX 32bpp YUV function is buggy. +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. Status: Todo -Task: 0x13 +Task: 0x0c 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. -Status: Todo - -Task: 0x14 -Difficulty: Guru -Urgency: Wishlist -Description: Debug MPEG1 video - The MPEG1 support has been done, but it still crashes. +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 -Task: 0x15 +Task: 0x0b 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: Todo +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: 0x16 +Task: 0x0a 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. +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: Todo -Task: 0x17 -Difficulty: Hard +Task: 0x09 +Difficulty: Easy Urgency: Normal -Description: Add 24bpp YUV - There is no 24bpp support yet. Add it, either in MMX - or in C. -Status: Todo - -Task: 0x18 -Difficulty: Guru -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. -Status: Todo +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: 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: 0x1a +Task: 0x08 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. +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. Status: Todo -Task: 0x1b +Task: 0x07 Difficulty: Hard -Urgency: Wishlist -Description: modularize decoder - Make the decoder a plugin, so that two versions can coexist - without recompilation (MMX and non-MMX). +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 -Task: 0x1c +Task: 0x06 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. +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 -Task: 0x1d -Difficulty: Hard +Task: 0x05 +Difficulty: Easy +Urgency: Important +Description: vlms backport + 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 + +Task: 0x04 +Difficulty: Medium Urgency: Normal -Description: LPCM decoder - The LPCM decoder is full of stubs, it only parses the stream - but does not decode it. Fix this. +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. Status: Todo -Task: 0x1e +Task: 0x03 Difficulty: Hard -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. +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. Status: Todo -Task: 0x1f -Difficulty: Hard +Task: 0x02 +Difficulty: Medium 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. +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. Status: Todo -Task: 0x20 +Task: 0x01 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. +Urgency: Wishlist +Description: MGA YUV + The Matrox acceleration for the vlc does not work yet, + though there are initialization routines in the code. Status: Todo -Task: 0x21 +Task: 0x00 Difficulty: Medium -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. +Urgency: Wishlist +Description: Splash screen + The vlc needs a splash screen with a vlc logo, instead of + the "waiting for stream" message. Status: Todo + -- 2.39.5