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== 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

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