* Update TODO and other junk

NEWS

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ Core support:
  * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
  * Fix crash with deinterlace switching
  * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
+ * Daemon mode
 
 Demux:
  * Support iTunes Music Store previews

THANKS

@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ Fumio Nakayama <endymion@ca2.so-net.ne.jp> - Japanese translation
 Goetz Waschk <waschk at informatik.uni-rostock dot de> - Mandrake packages
 Haakon Meland Eriksen - Norwegian translation
 Hans-Peter Jansen <hpj@urpla.net> - patch for module options handling
+Jan Gerber <j at v2v dot org> - patch theora decoding aspect ratio
 Jan Van Boghout <vlc@macrabbit.com> - iTunes like slider for OSX intf
 Javier Varela <tonxabar@hotmail.com> - Spanish translation
 Jean-Alexis Montignies <ja@sente.ch> - coreaudio multiple streams fix

TODO

@@ -91,6 +91,14 @@ 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: no blocking primary interface
+Do away with the strange primary blocking interface. The first interface should be run in the same thread, but not be the blocking call. Load other interfaces in new threads.
+Status: Todo
+
 Task
 Difficulty: Medium
 Urgency: Wishlist
@@ -147,9 +155,17 @@ Urgency: Normal
 Platform: any
 Description: 24 bit LPCM
 - Increasingly more DVDs use 24 bit LPCM sound. We should support it.
+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.
 Status: Todo
 
+Task
 Task
 Difficulty: Medium
 Urgency: Wishlist
@@ -181,12 +197,12 @@ Task
 Difficulty: Hard
 Urgency: Critical
 Platform: OSX
-Description: CoreAudio multichannel audio output. Convert to 
-<a href="http://www.mat.ucsb.edu:8000/CoreAudio/108">AUHAL</a> based sytem.
+Description: CoreAudio multichannel audio output.
+ Convert to <a href="http://www.mat.ucsb.edu:8000/CoreAudio/108">AUHAL</a> 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.
+Outstanding issues:<br />
+ - G5 S/PDIF not working<br />
+ - G5 PCM not working because S/PDIF is selected by default, even if not connected.<br />
  - Coreaudio resampler doesn't handle input from lpcm decoder (the samples are too small).
 Status: Todo
 
@@ -201,6 +217,15 @@ Description: Stream text subtitles
 (40% done) needs to be tested and validated
 Status: Assigned to fenrir
 
+Task
+Difficulty: Easy
+Urgency: Normal
+Platform: any
+Description: Fix up text subtitles
+Currently the subtitle dialog boxes are out of date and not really useable. Also we need more files to test and verify the current support, and the rendering of the subs should be sped up quite a bit (issue with outlining?) Other issues should mostly be dealt with after the vout systems are improved.
+
+Status: Todo
+
 Task
 Difficulty: Hard
 Urgency: Normal
@@ -433,5 +458,46 @@ 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 experiences with A/V and streaming or VLC for that matter. It can be heavily improved by updating the vlm http interface.
+Status: Todo
+
+Task
+Difficulty: Medium
+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?
+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 ????
+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
+
 # Do not remove me
 Task