From fc722e84ebeeee56b926c1a8d999b0e46bfd947a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Cl=C3=A9ment=20Stenac?= Date: Sun, 8 May 2005 07:40:39 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Clean BUGS and TODO --- BUGS | 22 +- TODO | 681 +---------------------------------------------------------- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 697 deletions(-) diff --git a/BUGS b/BUGS index 8208ceffe6..e5de9959a5 100644 --- a/BUGS +++ b/BUGS @@ -2,22 +2,6 @@ # Known VLC bugs # ################## -Feel free to work on these :) - -Regressions from previous versions ----------------------------------- -*** OS X resampler -* CDDAX - -** Playlist : the "previous item" action sometimes doesn't get any item, or an item -at the other edge of the playlist, when at the beginning of a node - -* Sort by Author unimplemented - -Other bugs ----------- -* Insert/Backspace hotkeys -* SDL Vout -** ALSA 5.1, at least with some configuration -** hotkeys in wxWindows in embedded mode sometimes don't respond -** OSX LPCM +# This file is deprecated +# Please use https://developers.videolan.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/ +# Every developer with an SVN account can access Trac with the same credentials diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index 5e49fc1005..743db5d050 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -3,685 +3,10 @@ # # Urgency values: Wishlist, Normal, Important, Critical -Task -Difficulty: Easy -Urgency: Critical -Platform: any -Description: World domination - We need to dominate the world -Status: Todo +# This file is deprecated +# Please use https://developers.videolan.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/ +# Every developer with an SVN account can access Trac with the same credentials -Task -Difficulty: Easy -Platform: any -Urgency: Normal -Description: cli option for audio-channels -It's currently not possible to force VLC from stereo to mono mode, or from stereo to reverse stereo or dolby mode. It's one of the few options in VLC that can not yet be forced from Preferences or the commandline. -Status: Todo - -Task -Difficulty: Hard -Platform: any -Urgency: Wishlist -Description: Java wrapping/bindings -Allow java apps to use VLC perhaps? Several people have suggested something like this. -Status: Todo - -Task -Difficulty: Easy -Platform: win32/macosx -Urgency: Normal -Description: OS contextual menu support -Create contextual menus for the OS so you can play or enqueue files from the Finder/Explorer directly into VLC. Much like with for instance Winamp. -Status: Todo - -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 -Difficulty: Medium -Platform: Any -Urgency: Critical -Description: fix subtitle regressions -Investigate behaviour of subpictures when pausing.
-Status: Todo - - -Task -Difficulty: Easy to Difficult -Platform: Any -Urgency: Important -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 -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 -Difficulty: Hard -Urgency: Normal -Platform: any -Description: Dual window in embed mode -Windows taskbar reports two windows in the video embed mode. -Status: Done - -Task -Difficulty: Guru -Urgency: Normal -Platform: any -Description: Multi-input -* Many demuxers don't support it
-* Need GUI elements -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: 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 -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
- - *** Consider changing calls to playlist_Control into playlist_LockControl - - * "Name finder"
- - * "Protocol rollover" node
- - *** Item moving/copying facilities
- - * Ability to save playlist on quit
- - ? Represent navigation structure as "fake items" ?
- - Custom playlist format (http://xspf.xiph.org/ looks like a good idea)
-- Helper modules
- - ** ASX and B4S parsers (see below)
- - * Rewrite SLP announce discovery
- - * Live directory representation
-- *** Implement in Skins 2 interfaces
-- wx implementation :
- - ** 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 -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 -Difficulty: Medium -Urgency: Normal -Platform: any -Description: fix current muxers.
-Our avi muxer doesn't produce valid files
-Status: Todo - -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.
-This is now fixed, but there is a problem with buffers in the resampler that now sometimes overflows (or rather get changed after they are released). A good method for reproduction seems to be running Finding Nemo for a minute or 8. -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.). -Status: Todo - -Task -Difficulty: Easy -Urgency: Normal -Platform: Mac OS X -Description: OS X bookmarks window -We miss a bookmarks window like the wxwidget one. -Status: Todo - -Task -Difficulty: Medium -Urgency: Normal -Platform: Mac OS X -Description: Finish Mac Mozilla plugin -The Mac mozilla plugin needs some more work to be useable. Mostly done now, -needs testing. -Status: 90% - -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 -Difficulty: Medium -Platform: Win32, Linux -Urgency: Normal -Description: wxWidgets fixes - - Rename wxWindows to wxWidgets
- - Problems with slider (doesn't go where you click, keep updating while seeking -?)
-Status: Todo - -Task -Difficulty: Guru -Urgency: Normal -Platform: Mac OS X -Description: SVCD support -Support the cddax and vcdx modules for proper SVCD support. libcdio seems to work a tad flacky under OS X. Cause is unknown. -Status: Todo - -Task -Difficulty: Hard -Urgency: Normal -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 -Difficulty: Medium -Platform: any -Urgency: Wishlist -Description: DVTS support -DV over RTP support. See DVTS homepage -Status: Todo - -Task -Difficulty: Hard -Platform: WinCE -Urgency: Wishlist -Description: WinCE port finalizing -The WinCE port needs a little maturing and optimization. -Status: Assigned to gibalou - -Task -Difficulty: Medium -Urgency: Wishlist -Platform: any -Description: Full blown OSD system - In the line of freevo etc. - (Checkout the correct svn branch) -Status: 80% done. Assigned to thedj, jpsaman and yoann - -Task -Difficulty: Easy -Urgency: Wishlist -Platform: any -Description: GSM decoder -The Toast implementation. -Status: Todo - -Task -Difficulty: Easy -Urgency: Wishlist -Platform: any -Description: AMR decoder -We will need to find one that isn't based on the reference code. -Status: Todo - -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 -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 -Difficulty: Easy -Urgency: Wishlist -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 -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 -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: 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)
-- ideas for new filters are a greenwall filter, and a goom filter that mixes goom effects into the vout. -Status: Todo - -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).
-- Allow a vout to reuse a window by resizing it (instead of closing and opening). -- better hotkeys integration -Status: Todo - -Task -Difficulty: Medium -Urgency: Wishlist -Platform: any -Description: Subtitle work -- better SSA support with postioning, colors etc.
-Status: Todo - -Task -Difficulty: Easy -Urgency: Wishlist -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 -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. There is already some code in the VLC sourcetree.
-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 -Difficulty: Hard -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 -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 -Difficulty: Easy -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: statistics -Count packetloss, bandwith usage and fps for statistics.
-Status: Todo - -Task -Difficulty: Hard -Urgency: Wishlist -Platform: any -Description: http cookies -For protected VoD (http://a-select.surfnet.nl) -Status: Todo - -Task -Difficulty: Easy -Urgency: Wishlist -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 -Difficulty: Medium -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 -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.
-Also, GUI implementation. -Status: Todo - -Task -Difficulty: Easy -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 -Difficulty: Hard -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 -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 -Difficulty: Easy -Urgency: Wishlist -Platform: any -Description: Gnome-vfs support -For integration with smb, sftp and other file sharing/mounting methods -Status: Todo - -Task -Difficulty: Hard -Platform: any -Urgency: Wishlist -Description: Matroska muxer - We need one :) -Status: Todo - -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 -Difficulty: Medium -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 -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: Faster deinterlacing -Our deinterlacers are relatively slow. DScaler has the best Soft deinterlacers out there. -Unfortunatly it is very Win32 focused. -Status: Todo - -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: Easy -Platform: win32 -Urgency: Wishlist -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 - -Task -Difficulty: Medium -Platform: any -Urgency: Wishlist -Description: OpenGL improvements -OpenGL extensions can be querried at runtime using the glGetString( -GL_EXTENSIONS ) call. Both rectangular textures and yuv textures may be -available at non-apple platform (or even not available on some macs).
-More fancy stuff can be done with GL, like subpicture rendering.
-With recent hardware (and opengl shading language) stuff like dct, motion -compensation or postprocessing should be possible. - -Task -Difficulty: Medium -Platform: any -Urgancy: Wishlist -Description: Gnutella servlet -A simple gnutella servlet, combined with vlc's stream output/input features -would make it fairly easy to implement peercast streaming, and peercast -playback with restreaming. Also I guess gnutella could be used for other -things as well, like discovering services. # Do not remove me Task