TODO: removed ^M. Added some subtitle anormalites that needs to be fixed.

ca1b3a2c · Sigmund Augdal Helberg · 9fbb4ad3 · ca1b3a2c
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 # VLC Todo
 # Difficulty values: Easy, Medium, Hard, Guru
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 # 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: Hard
 Urgency: Critical
 Platform: Mac OS X
 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:<br />
 - G5 S/PDIF not working<br />
 - G5 PCM not working because S/PDIF is selected by default, even if not connected.<br />
 Status: Todo
 Task
 Difficulty: Medium
 Platform: any
 Urgency: Important
 Description: Update matroska demux
 Better Seeking
 Status: Todo
 Task
 Difficulty: Easy
 Platform: any
 Urgency: Important
 Description: proper DVD controls
 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.
 Status: Todo
 Task
 Difficulty: Easy
 Platform: Linux, Win32, Mac OS X
 Urgency: Normal
 Description: Streaming wizard
 Finish the streaming wizard (85% finished)<br />
 The mac version is at 0%
 Status: Assigned to zorglub
 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: External audio file playing
 Allow several access from an input thread to allow for multi-input<br />
 (90% done) Add 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<br />
 - timeout support<br />
 - add meta-information to playlist<br />
 - session version support<br />
 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. <a href="http://sierra.via.ecp.fr/~zorglub/vlc/playlist.txt">Thoughts and ideas (not up-to-date)</a><br />
 50% done.<br />
 Todo:<br />
 - Core support<br />
   - *** Improve random mode and fix loop<br />
   - *   "Name finder"<br />
   - *   "Protocol rollover" node<br />
   - *** Item moving/copying facilities<br />
   - *   Ability to save playlist on quit<br />
   - ?   Represent navigation structure as "fake items" ?  <br />
   -     Custom playlist format<br />
 - Helper modules<br />
   - **  ASX and B4S parsers (see below)<br />
   - *   Rewrite SLP announce discovery<br />
   - *   Live directory representation<br /> 
 - *** Implement in MacOS X and Skins 2 interfaces<br />
 - wx implementation :<br />
   - *** Investigate Win32 crash<br />
   - **  Support item move/copy<br />
   - *   Explorer view<br />
   - *   Cleverer update using i_serial<br />
   - *   Playlist preferences panel<br />
   - **  Improve iteminfo dialog<br />
 Status: Assigned to zorglub
 Task
 Difficulty: Easy
@@ -150,529 +150,538 @@ Description: DVD controls panel
  a DVD with controls such as "up, down, right, left, next chapter, prev chapter, back to menu, ..."
 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 <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/
 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: any
 Description: 24 bit LPCM
 - Increasingly more DVDs use 24 bit LPCM sound. We should support it.
 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.
 Status: Todo
 Task
 Difficulty: Hard
 Urgency: Normal
 Platform: Any
 Description: Rework of the preferences
 * New information in preferences for a rework of how preferences are sorted in interfaces
 * New widget types
 See http://www.via.ecp.fr/via/ml/vlc-devel/200409/msg00409.html
 Status: Assigned to zorglub
 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. 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). <br />
 - retrieve variable values.<br />
 - open VLC media player<br />
 - default html page to control the plugin<br />
 - XUL controls<br />
 (80% done) see:<br />
 <a href="http://sierra.via.ecp.fr/~zorglub/vlc/plugin/vlc.html">Javascript controls</a>
 <a href="http://sierra.via.ecp.fr/~zorglub/vlc/xul/">XUL controls</a>
 <a href="http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/">MPlayer Mozilla plugin</a>
 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<br />
   - 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?).
 Status: Todo
 Task
 Difficulty: Medium
 Platform: Win32, Linux
 Urgency: Normal
 Description: wxWidgets fixes
 - Rename wxWindows to wxWidgets<br />
 - Problems with slider (doesn't go where you click, keep updating while seeking
 ?)<br />
 - Reversed arrows
 Status: Todo
 Task
 Difficulty: Guru
 Urgency: Normal
 Platform: Mac OS X
 Description: SVCD support
 libcdio needs to be ported to the Mac to support the cddax and vcdx modules for proper SVCD support
 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.<br />
 Needs testing and validating
 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 <a href="http://via.ecp.fr/via/ml/streaming/200408/msg00068.html">mail</a> and <a href="http://via.ecp.fr/via/ml/streaming/200410/msg00002.html">mail</a>.
 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 <a href="http://www.sfc.wide.ad.jp/DVTS/">DVTS homepage</a>
 Status: Todo
 Task
 Difficulty: Hard
 Platform: WinCE
 Urgency: Wishlist
 Description: WinCE port finalizing
 The WinCE port is already quite functional but we still miss a GAPI video output (GDI works but is slow) and an interface.
 Some code already exists for that (http://sourceforge.net/projects/vlcpocketpc/) and would need to be imported into the VLC source tree.
 Downloads should be added to the main vlc download page. We need an icon for this. 
 Status: Assigned to MixerAnderson
 Task
 Difficulty: Medium
 Urgency: Wishlist
 Platform: any
 Description: Full blown OSD system 
 In the line of freevo etc.
 Status: Assigned to thedj, jpsaman and yoann
 Task
 Difficulty: Easy
 Urgency: Wishlist
 Platform: any
 Description: GSM decoder
 The <a href="http://kbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/~jutta/toast.html">Toast</a> 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? <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: 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.
 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.<br />
 - Use ZVBI library for VBI decoding and image generation<br />
 - ESTI EN 300 472 for EBU teletext support in DVB<br />
 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.
 Status: Todo
 Task
 Difficulty: Guru
 Urgency: Wishlist
 Platform: any
 Description: Vout redesign
 - 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).
 Status: Todo
 Task
 Difficulty: Medium
 Urgency: Wishlist
 Platform: any
 Description: Subtitle work
 - better SSA support with postioning, colors etc.
 - Fix subtitles dialogs (mac done)
 Status: Todo
 Task
 Difficulty: Easy
 Urgency: Wishlist
 Platform: any
 Description: Automatic charset recognition
 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?
 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 handler.
 Status: Todo
 Task
 Difficulty: Hard
 Urgency: Wishlist
 Platform: any
 Description: informing user.
 Implement a system to: <br />
 - Alert the user of critical errors (cannot play file). Should be blocking. <br />
 - Ask the user a question (Are you sure? or Try to Fix index of avi? or Overwrite File?)<br />
 - 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 /> 
 - present a user/passwd dialog when we get an authentication failure on a stream.<br />
 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.
 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: <a href="http://bugzilla.videolan.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=416">Bug 416</a>
 Status: Todo
 Task
 Difficulty: Hard
 Urgency: Wishlist
 Platform: Windows
 Description: ActiveX control for VLC
 We need an ActiveX version of VLC for IE intergration
 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".<br />
 - AR<br />
 - size<br />
 - bitrate<br />
 - resolution<br />
 - codecs, etc.<br />
 Status: Todo
 Task
 Difficulty: Easy
 Urgency: Wishlist
 Platform: any
 Description: SSL http
 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.
 Status: Done
 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).<br />
 DMAP protocol announce for videos.
 Status: Todo
 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.
 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?<br />
 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 <br />
 - libhal based discovery (should be able to find cd,dvd,capture cards,etc etc <br />
 - Perhaps a generalized webpage parser (use user supplied templates to parse
   streams from popular websites )
 Status: Todo
 Task
 Difficulty: Medium
 Platform: any
 Urgency: Wishlist
 Description: Autoselect a track based on preferred language
 Problems might exist with formats that don't have headers?
 Most part easy to do, because the language info is stored in the ES format structs these days.
 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<br />
 Sound Files( .mp3, .ogg, .wav, .m4a, .m4p)<br />
 Video Files( .avi, .mkv, .mov, .mpg, .m2v, etc)<br />
 Subtitle Files( .idx, .sub, .utf, .srt)<br />
 Status: Todo
-# Do not remove me
+Task
-Task
+Difficulty: Medium
+Platform: Any
+Urgency: Important
+Description: fix subtitle regressions
+Multi-line subtitles are not aligned correctly. Text subtitles don't work
+with 32bpp rgb. Investigate behaviour of subpictures when pausing.
+Status: Todo
+# Do not remove me
+Task