Bounties

WIP

This is a Work In Progress. It is NOT a definitive list, nor are the prices!

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Payment

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Money is paid by the VideoLAN non-profit organization in Euros.

Money is paid on code merge in the relevant project. Sending a reasonable patch on a public mailing-list gives a temporary lock for the task.

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List of bounties

VLC bugs

AC-3 Volume

1000 €

Fix correctly the AC-3 volume issue. See #3994.

The issue can come from a mis-integration with liba52, or could come from some channels being wrongly discarded.

This must work on Windows.

Screencast

500? € Currently the screencasting is poor:

• No interface to correctly select both
• No loopback on Windows and Mac
• Need to check that all input are using mdate()-based PTS

See #4535 and #5988.

HTTP/AVI seeking

500? € VLC behaves poorly with AVI over http connections. This is true for mp4 too. MPlayer does it way better.

See #2151.

VLC Features

libVLC API for filters

1000? € This task consist on doing a correct set of libVLC API for audio filters and video filters.

This should include equalizer configuration.

This would be useful for phonon, tomahawk and other libVLC application.

libVLC API for smem

1000 € Create a libVLC API to be able to use smem. This might include a libVLC API for sout.

libVLC API for imem

200 € Create a libVLC API for imem to map to a libvlc_media_t object, in order to use it like the rest of libVLC.

Local resampling

1500 € Stop to resampling the audio when playing local files.

RTP packetization

Each item: 100 € Do the packetization of ONE of those items:

• Opus
• VP8
• WMA
• WMV
• VC-1
• JPEG
• GSM
• raw video

See #380, #1289, #1323, #6443, #5178 and #6505

libVLCcore SD API and Upnp

500?? € The Upnp SD is very slow because it needs to fetch recusively all nodes. This needs to change.

This task will likely need a change of API for the Service Discoveries.

See #4437.

DVB scanning

1000 € In order to compete with TV software, we need some DVB scanning, working on all platforms using the DTV module

See #7248.

See http://nate.dynalias.net/dev/scanchannelsbda.rails and http://nate.deepcreek.org.au/svn/ScanChannelsBDA/trunk/

HDMI pass-through

2000 € Notably for other codecs than the ones we have over S/PDIF.

We need:

• DTS over HDMI
• DTS extensions over HDMI, notably DTS HD MA
• E-AC3
• MPGA
• Dolby TrueHD

The price is for all of those?

See #4940 and other.

Preferences for LUA extensions

1200 € Be able to add preferences for LUA extensions.

Downloader for LUA extensions from addons.v.o

1000 € See libattica.

Auto-Rotation of the screen

800 € As many MP4 videos and JPEG files we need to rotate those when we detect it.

So far, the demuxer has the info, but that is it.

We should ask the vout if it can transform (OpenGL) else load the right transform filter.

See #2882.

ARM optimizations

ARM optimisation for core and important filters. This is TBD.

Ideas:

• Audio conversions
• Chroma conversions
• Transform filter

Libavcodec bugs

Bug -mt on Mpeg-4 video

500 € Fix the Mpeg-4 resolution change for -mt in libavcodec. See #6579 and #6533.

Bug -mt on H.264 video

500 € Fix the H.264 resolution change for -mt in libavcodec. See #7306.

VC-1 interlaced

1000 € Fix VC-1 interlaced and adding missing B-frames support in libavcodec. See #5887.

Libavcodec features

MSS2

1000 € Add a MSS2 Decoder in libavcodec. See #750.

G2M

1000 € Add a G2M2/G2M3/G2M4 Decoder in libavcodec. See #2327.

VoxWare

500 € Add a VoxWare MetaSound Decoder in libavcodec.

DTS-HD Master Audio

3000 € Add a DTS-HD Master Audio Decoder.

This can be either in libavcodec or in libdca, but it must work in VLC in the end, including 8 channels. This is probably the XLL extension to code.

BD+

2000 € Work on libbdplus to play BD+ BD in libbluray.