# VLC Todo # Difficulty values: Easy, Medium, Hard, Guru # # Urgency values: Wishlist, Normal, Important, Critical Task Difficulty: Easy Urgency: Critical Platform: any Description: World domination We need to dominate the world Status: Todo 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 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
- *** Remove items from pp_all_items on deletion - *** 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
- 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 # Do not remove me Task