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@@ -35,7 +35,6 @@ optional - videolan streaming server support - helix streaming server support -- theora alpha api support (andreas) - detect broken savage drivers in health check, disable Xv in that case - id3v2 (guenter) - directfb video output plugin @@ -63,3 +62,37 @@ Open Tasks - MAS support (http://www.mediaapplicationserver.net) - nonlinear video editing and compositing frontend (michael) => enix - stream format conversion frontend => enix + + +xine's future +============= + +- Separation of lots of audio and video processing functionality into post + plugins: + - Separate plugins for software scaling, colour space conversion, + postprocessing, deinterlacing, cropping, audio resampling, software + volume etc. If it's convenient/efficient plugins can do more than one + thing at the same time. + - Decoders set flags suggesting what needs to be done, e.g. ffmpeg decoder + might suggest postprocessing and cropping. + - Output drivers advertise what features are supported natively and what + limitations there are, e.g. scaling and maximum frame size for Xv. + - Front end informs engine what processing the user requests, e.g. audio + equaliser + - xine engine automatically inserts a chain of plugins for carrying out the + necessary processing. + Doing this would: + - Simplify decoder and output plugins, and therefore make developing new + ones much easier + - Reduce common code + - Increase flexibility of the engine + + The api should also allow the automatic insertion to be overridden/controlled + for applications such as video processing. + +- see what kind of cooperation can be set up with other media player projects + - mike will look into moving xine's decoder api closer to the one + ffmpeg uses + - check out other media players + - output, demuxer plugins + |