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.
Allow several access from an input thread to allow for multi-input (30% done)
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
Difficulty: Medium
Urgency: Wishlist
Platform: any
Description: Full blown OSD system
In the line of freevo etc.
Status: Todo
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
Status: Assigned to zorglub
Task
Difficulty: Medium
Urgency: Normal
Platform: any
Description: Tree playlist
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>
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/
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
Task
Difficulty: Easy
Urgency: Normal
Platform: any
Description: 24 bit LPCM
- Increasingly more DVDs use 24 bit LPCM sound. We should support it.
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
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.
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.
Perhaps look at Xawtv, dvbtext and other vbi, vtx systems.
Status: Todo
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
Difficulty: Medium
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: 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.).
- 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).
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?
- 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 />
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.
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).
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.
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
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: 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: 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: 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.
