[vlc-devel] Re: Status of VLC

[Jason Luka]

Can anyone send me small (i.e. <1 meg) samples of each of these kinds of
movies.

Jason Luka
VLC Red Hat

----- Original Message -----
From: "Derk-Jan Hartman" <d.hartman at student.utwente.nl>
To: <vlc-devel at videolan.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2003 7:09 PM
Subject: [vlc-devel] Status of VLC


> I've just been sorting out my list of problematic movies
> I'm happy to say that a lot is working in 0.6.0, thank god.
>
> I now have the following list.
> Added some todo stuff on big important features as well.
>
> Unsupported
> - IV40
> - IV50
> - WMV3
> - FFV1
> - MSGSM/MSN etc.
> - amr and amr-nb
> - Real media ( there are real audio codecs in ffmpeg now, but we don't
> even support the fileformat)
>
> Partial (either VLC or external decoder has a problem)
> - ASV1 via ffmpeg, but crashes immediatly for me via VLC.
> - SVQ1 on OSX, ffmpeg has an altivec issue which creates weird colors.
> The native QT library decoder only shows a green window (first frame
> ????) This is a qt lib decoder problem i guess.
> - 3iv1 should work on osx via native QT library decoder, but crashes
> - VP31, in development by ffmpeg. still not there, major blocking (at
> least on osx). The native QT library ought to be able to decode it with
> QT components by xiph.org, but the decoder crashes.
> - IV3*, is said to work on little endian via ffmpeg. has anyone tested
> this? The big endian problems are a ffmpeg problem.
> - MACE stereo via ffmpeg is not working. (mono is) This is an ffmpeg
> problem.
> - MACE mono, QDM2 mono via qt lib decoder isn't working. I suspect this
> goes for all mono trough this decoder. Our problem.
>
> Then i've also got some weird avi file which doesn't start it's audio
> track for some reason. if I deactivate and then reactivate the track,
> it works.
>
> Other Unsupported stuff.
> - matroska
> - Real
> - some SVCD's
> - filesubs over ogm and mpeg files.
> - closed caption subs on anime DVD's
>
> Future improvements
> - input 4, fenrir is working on it
> - lot's of other subfile options for which Dnumgis already did great
> work, but still needs improving. (Does this have to be a filter? It's
> slow :(  )
> - centralized keybindings, again Dnumgis did great work, but needs help
> ;)
> - playlist system needs a lot of work. we've all read the RFC didn't we?
> - http control module with parsing support so ppl can create their own
> html for it. (hardcoded html is no way to go about this ;) This could
> really rock (authentication support is also needed)
> - Win CE port would rock the world
> - ALSA needs improvement
> - porting of skins to OSX
> - bring everything to UTF8
> - add something like a wait, or buffer event to tell the intf that we
> are working on your request ;)
>
>
> That's probably the big stuff.
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> Derk-Jan Hartman (thedj at users.sourceforge.net)
> Co-Developer of the MacOS X port of vlc
> http://www.videolan.org/vlc
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