Robin Rawson-Tetley

29th July, 2009

Download my most recent dongle for testing (don't blame me if it burns your house down). This dongle is based on the current trunk as of 27th July, 2009.

TODO

Audio/Filebrowser Stuff

This is mostly stuff around generated playlists (using the Play All and Shuffle options from the file browser menu). It hasn't been committed to the main source tree. Get the source in patch form.

• In generated playlist mode, resort the list so that single-digit lower numbers appear before higher numbers when compared alphanumerically
• Use ID3 tags for display in playlists for mp3 files
• Make Play All/Shuffle recurse the current directory and any subdirectories for audio files
• Make playlists repeat by default
• Enque option to allow addition of directories/files to the current playlist
• Option to save the current playlist as an m3u file
• Reset play timer when track skips to next item in the playlist
• Count down timer when playing audio tracks instead of size in bytes
• Frame around playback widget to show where progress meter ends
• Pre-rendered visual output with track overlay

VLC Stuff

• Investigate multiple transcoding sessions for a single VLC server serving multiple MVP boxes (unique broadcoast names and ports)
• Audio/Video resync is broken in 0.3.4 (it used an old hack) and should really be a hotkey to pause/unpause since this clears everything down and reconnects to the stream. Investigate whether JIT av-sync obviates the need for any of this.
• Reduce logging noise/space by using stdout for debug and connect.log for important items only
• Use si.rows instead of AV_PAL/NTSC to determine TV type
• Show accurate timecode on OSD
• VLC videos playing as thumbnail in file browser should go back to fullscreen if selected again
• Command line switches for pre-set transcodes and bitrates
• Settings menu for VLC pre-sets
• Investigate support for subtitles
• Look at patching VLC to allow time-based relative seeking in the telnet interface
• Add +30/-10 second commercial skipping
• Improve transcoding defaults so VLC works much better without having to set lots of VLC command line options (should be driven by mvpmc config options, but may need additional options)

VLC Changes

I maintain the VLC integration with mvpmc. You can use the following functions while playing VLC video streams:

• SKIP/REPLAY will skip 30 seconds forwards and 10 seconds backwards in the stream
• UP/DOWN and FFWD/REWIND will skip 5% forwards and backwards in the stream
• LEFT/RIGHT will skip 2% forwards and backwards in the stream
• BLANK/OK will show the OSD and output the current stream position
• Number keys take you to 10*key of the stream (eg: 9 = 90%)
• RECORD will resync video and audio
• PAUSE now works correctly and will resume by reconnecting to the stream
• OSD support for all functions and stream interrogation so you can see how far you are currently through the playing stream.
• MVPMC automatically sets best transcoding options based on internal configuration
• Subtitle files are now overlaid onto the transcoded stream
• VLC settings menu to control audio/video transcoding presets
• VLC command line options for audio/video transcoding presets
• Persistence of VLC options to external configuration files

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