VoutReworkUserRequirements

User-side requirements

• working hotkeys in embed, windowed, or fullscreen mode
  • Partially related to GUI, but some work will have to be done, see lower
• ability to position subtitles virtually anywhere (eg outside the picture)
  • Ok, planned. See vout_render, cropping/padding
• screen-resolution OSD
  • Planned, see subpictures
• ability to switch from embed to windowed vouts with the mouse
• screenshots
  • Already existing ... Want something more ? Answer: yes. The current architecture is meant for interactive use, but is not really usable from an external application embedding VLC (cf MediaControlAPI for an example). Screenshot functionality should at least provide :
    • the ability to use a destination other than a file (think embedded)
    • a small cache of pictures to take into account the reaction time
    • precise timestamp of the snapshot (in movie time)
    • Replace image video output cleanly
• close helper vouts without stopping the stream
  • More or less planned
• chained video filters
• on-the-fly AR correction
• enable/disable video filters on the fly
  • Should work, currently buggy (suxxor thread suxxing). Planned
• stream video filters with stream output (eg start a stream, deinterlace it, invert the colors, distort the picture, add a logo and a rss feed and stream the result to your grandmother).
• Screensaver desactivation
• Screensaver output : maybe having sub-module with screensaver capatibilities and a way to ask the core to use a screensaver module instead of a regular vout module