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Missing meson tasks

Main tasks

  • Windows cross-compile support
  • Windows store support
  • macOS bundling support (ideally, long-term, with meson module)
  • macOS interface support (ideally with meson module for ibtool)
  • Translations support (gettext)
  • Implement option to merge FFmpeg plugins into one
  • Add symbol export list (libvlc.sym) (requires meson support)
  • Add test support (the vlc/test directory)
  • Add ./vlc symlink/binary from a non-install build (only ./bin/vlc-static is working for now)

Missing modules

Demuxers

  • Musepack (MPC)
  • Game Music Emu (GME)
  • SID demuxer
  • Move adaptive streaming demux to convenience lib (needed for tests)
  • Adaptive streaming demux tests
  • Adaptive streaming optional Gcrypt dependency
  • ytdl demux (needs JSON demux)
  • Mock demux (don't install)
  • JSON parser library (don't install)

Video outputs

  • Decklink (Windows, macOS, Linux only)
  • CVPixelBuffer Interop module (Darwin only)
  • macOS window provider
  • macOS OpenGL video output
  • macOS CAOpenGLLayer video output
  • iOS UIView window provider
  • iOS video output
  • iOS CAEAGL video output
  • CVPixelBuffer OpenGL provider
  • OpenGL VA-API interop
  • OpenGL VDPAI interop
  • Vulkan video output (video_output/vulkan)
  • Wayland video output (video_output/wayland)
  • Direct 3D9 video output
  • OpenGL DXVA 2.0 interop
  • Direct 3D11 video output
  • OpenGL Win32 video output
  • WGL OpenGL provider (Windows Desktop)
  • Windows inhibit plugin (Desktop)
  • Windows OpenGL ES EGL
  • Windows drawable video output
  • OS/2 drawable (requires meson OS/2 support)
  • OS/2 window provider (requires meson OS/2 support)
  • Android utils library
  • Android OpenGL ES EGL
  • Android window provider
  • Android display
  • Android OpenGL interop
  • Linux DRM display video output
  • Caca video output (partially done)
  • Libplacebo probably needs more work, it's a bit of a mess even in Autotools right now

Access

  • DCP access
  • Emscripten JS file access
  • OSS access (see !2712 (merged))
  • Decklink (Linux, macOS, Windows)
  • V4L2 (Linux only)
  • DirectShow
  • CD-DA: Add optional Gcrypt dependency
  • Old Linux DVB scanner
  • live555
  • MMS
  • SMB (Samba) access
  • SMB (libdsm) access
  • SMB2 (libsmb2) access
  • SFTP
  • NFS
  • Access cache library (don't install)
Screen capture access
  • Wayland screenshooter

Video chroma converter

  • CVPixelBuffer: Set minimum version properly for iOS and tvOS
  • i420 YUV2 Altivec

Video filters

  • CI filters: Add OpenGLES dependency for iOS/tvOS
  • Deinterlace: Add Altivec
  • GL blend filter
  • OpenCV filter
  • OpenCV example filter

Text renderer

  • Freetype: Android support
  • Freetype: Fontcconfig support
  • Freetype: Fribidi support
  • Freetype: Harfbuzz support

Stream filter

  • Aribcam
  • Access tweaks

Stream outputs

  • Decklink SDI
  • RTP: Add optional Gcrypt dependency
  • Chromecast

GUI interfaces

  • Skins2
  • Qt: Add QT_QML_DEBUG option
  • Qt: Add Gtk theme support
  • Qt: Add windows only specific resources (windows.qrc)
  • Qt: Add optional support for QML cachegen
  • Qt: Add optional support for UPDATE_CHECK

Services discovery

  • Udev: Add ALSA support if available
  • OS/2 drive discovery (requires OS/2 support in meson)
  • udisks drive discovery

Logger

  • Android logger
  • Emscripten logger

Keystore

  • File: Add Android specific sources

Control interfaces

Audio outputs

  • Android OpenSL ES audio output
  • Android Audiotrack
  • Android AAudio
  • Android Audiodevice
  • OSS (see !2712 (merged))
  • Windows MMDevice
  • Winstore MMDevice
  • Windows WASAPI
  • OS/2 K Audio interface (requires OS/2 support in meson)
  • sndio
  • Waveout (WinMM)

Codecs

  • Edummy: Only enable when stream_outputs is enabled
  • Davs2
  • Arib caption
  • Speex
  • Tremor
  • VideoToolbox: Add iOS/tvOS target flags
  • libva no longer requires libavcodec, see a429ed75
  • DXVA 2.0
  • Direct3D 11 common library
  • Direct3D 11 VA
  • Test if OpenMAX IL actually compiles/works
  • Android MediaCodec
  • DMO
  • MFT
  • GStreamer decoder
  • hxx helpers library
  • hxx testdec
  • vt_utils library

Access outputs

  • Live HTTP

Audio filter

  • Simple channel mixer: NEON optimizations+
  • Band-limited resampler

Windows

  • Add an option to pick the minimum Windows version (_WIN32_WINNT values)
  • Add an option to select the family API (WINAPI_FAMILY_APP)

Other

  • Explicitly link with ssp on Windows, see configure.ac:1356
  • Add proper library versioning (much easier now that !2883 (merged) changes to use proper version number instead of libtools one)
  • Link Qt plugins when using static Qt (see this comment)
Edited by Alexandre Janniaux
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