* ALL: a bunch of additional warning fixes.

#if LIBAVCODEC_BUILD , I've enable direct rendering only with latest
ffmpeg cvs (anyway dr isn't cleanly ported to the latest version).

    creation code into vout_Request which looks for existing vout objects
    and spawns a new one if none was found.

* include/video.h, include/vlc_config.h, src/video_output/*: changed the
   picture buffer allocation scheme to allocate pictures from the render
   heap in a clockwise fashion instead of always picking the first available
   one from the start of the heap.
   This allows us to benefit from ffmpeg's macro-block skipping feature.
   As a side effect, we also have less chance of reusing a refrence picture
   buffer when we can't link/unlink them.

* modules/codec/ffmpeg/video.c: modified the direct rendering code to benefit
   from the macro-block skipping algorithm.
   A new flag has also been introduced in the video_output's render heap to
   forbid modifications to the render picture buffers (for instance to overlay
   subtitles).

 * ffmpeg : adapt postprocessing for latest libavcodec version, add an
option to disable direct rendering as postprocessing is currently broken
with it, and with some files I have bad pictures.

* modules/codec/spudec/*: modified the spu decoder to handle text subtitles.
   Only one format of text subtitles is supported right now but we should be able
   to expand this by modifying modules/codec/spudec/text.c.
   Most of this work comes from by Andrew Flintham ( thanks a bunch Andrew :).

* share/font-eutopiabold36.rle: new font for the text subtitler, courtesy of
   Andrew Flintham.

* AUTHORS: added Andrew Flintham to the authors file.

* modules/demux/ogg.c: modified the ogg demuxer to handle subtitles.

* modules/codec/ffmpeg/*: modified the ffmpeg decoder to always keep the last decoded
   frame linked.

* modules/codec/ffmpeg/*: modified the ffmpeg video codec to use direct
   rendering when possible.
   Use BITMAPINFOHEADER from include/codecs.h + got rid of Little Endian
   translations that were already done in the demux.
* modules/demux/avi/* modules/demux/asf/*: Use BITMAPINFOHEADER from
   include/codecs.h.

added wma1/2 decoder... :))

* ALL: removed GetPES and NextPES, we now use input_ExtractPES everywhere instead
   of these. The bitstream facility has also been changed to use input_ExtractPES
   and now stores the current PES in its structure.
   Introduced input_FlushPESFifo() and CloseBitstream().

 * input_ext-dec.c : add a call to GetPES in NextPES when fifo is empty.

* src/input/input_ext-dec.c, include/input_ext-dec.h, modules/codec/araw.c:
   renamed input_NextPES into input_ExtractPES and factorised its code.
* modules/codec/ffmpeg/ffmpeg.c, modules/codec/faad/decoder.c,
   modules/codec/cinepak/cinepak.c: make use of NextPES and GetPES from
   src/input/input_ext-dec.c.
* modules/codec/a52.c: fixed uninitialized variable.

 * wav : demux for wav file( should work with raw pcm, mp3 or a52 stream ) but
untested under big endian machine(for pcm).

All are compiled by default.

  * ./debian/control: gnome-vlc recommends vlc-plugin-esd, and kvlc recommends
    vlc-plugin-arts.
  * ./src/misc/messages.c: message queue now prints the current object type.
  * ./modules/*: cosmetic fixes for the --long-help output.

    only have one parent, because I don't want to deal with cycles, and each
    created object is indexed in a global array. This feature is unused yet,
    but it will speed up vlc_object_find(FIND_ANYWHERE).
  * ./debian/rules: activated the faad codec.
  * ./doc/fortunes.txt: new fortune cookies.
  * ./modules/codec/mpeg_video/headers.c: reduced the use of attach/detach.
  * ./modules/audio_output/oss.c: fixed two compilation warnings.

(faad2).
 * modules/demux/mp4/libmp4.c : could compile without zlib.
 * modules/codec/ffmpeg/* : set error resilience to -1 by default.(in
order to decode more files, but it could produce segfaults ... )
 * Makefile.*, configure.in : enable mp4 by default, add faad
module (disabled by default ).

mmx, mmxext version, but only mmxext is really usable (other need a
 _lot_ of CPU power).

There are new options for ffmpeg plugins :
 --ffmpeg-pp to choose postprocessing module( c, mmx, mmext or mmx2 )
 --ffmpeg-pp-q to choose quality( 0..6 )
 --ffmpeg-db-?? ( where first ? is for y or c, and the other ? for v or h )
to force deblocking on luminance(y)/chrominance(c) horizontally or
vertically.
 --ffmpeg-dr-? ( where ? is y or c ) to force dering on ...

    in ./modules/codec/mpeg_video/.

    waveout, directx, qnx, beos, win32, macosx, and the AltiVec modules.
  * ALL: removed mention of AC3 in favour of A52.
  * ./configure.in, ./Makefile*: modules can now be built deeper than 1
    directory. As a consequence, the build is even slower (but I'm fixing
    this) and make clean doesn't work anymore.

    about 2000 lines of code.

    I could not test everything on every architecture, so please report
    any module breakage (especially on BeOS, OSX and QNX).

 * ffmpeg and mp4: some clean up and change the way ffmpeg is
initialised.

  * include/input_ext-intf.h: killed p_es->b_audio, since i_cat already fills
    its purpose.
  * include/input_ext-intf.h: killed p_es->i_type in favour of p_es->i_fourcc.
  * include/video.h: killed p_pic->p_plane->b_margin; now i_visible_pitch is
    always valid.

  * ./src/libvlc.h: replaced --mpeg-adec and --ac3-adec with --codec; see
    vlc --help for more information.

  * include/video.h: removed fourcc values which should _not_ be global
    (thanks fenrir for convincing me).
  * ALL: video output plugins use the VLC_FOURCC macro to build their fourccs.
  * ./plugins/beos/InterfaceWindow.cpp: removed the last remaining call to
    input_ChangeES.

   Things I'm not sure about and need comments:
    - I used "mpga" and "mpgv" for MPEG (1+2) audio and video fourcc values.
    - I also introduced "spu ", "lpcm" and "ac3 ".
    - I removed for instance "MP4_GetCodec" because it wasn't really
      used except for the description string. I hope this change did not
      break anything really important.
    - fenrir, I must have broken a lot of things you wrote. Sorry in advance.

--enable-hurry-up ). Begin to work.

It allows to play mpeg4 file badly encoded(illegal VLC code).(Sam you
should be able to play your .mp4 file by setting it to -1, with recent
ffmpeg cvs).

  * ./src/libvlc.c, ./include/vlc/vlc.h: created reentrant versions of the
    libvlc API.
  * ./src/vlc.c: vlc uses the non-reentrant libvlc functions.
  * ./mozilla/vlcplugin.c: the mozilla plugin uses the reentrant functions.
  * ./debian/*: created packages for libvlc0-dev.

(Thx sam)

work.
 * all   : add support for some others codecs provided by ffmpeg, but some of them aren't tested.

  * ./src/misc/objects.c: we do not hang on attempt to destroy an object with
    a non-zero reference count, but we still complain.
  * ./plugins/gtk/gtk_control.c, plugins/gtk/gtk_playlist.c: most controls such
    as play, pause, stop, next, fast etc. work again.
  * ./plugins/gtk/gnome_*: got rid of lots of useless wrappers which were a
    workaround for a bug in Glade. Instead, bootstrap.sh does the Glade fixes.
  * ./plugins/ffmpeg/ffmpeg.c: if there is already a video output with the
    appropriate properties, we use it.

   As for video output 4, this breaks almost everything, but I'll slowly
  do what remains to be fixed during the weekend.

   Changes in vlc:
   ===============

  * vlc is now a very small program (20 lines) which uses the libvlc API;
   it is quite simple for the moment but can be extended in the future.

  * interfaces, decoders, video outputs, etc. are now almost the same
   objects (yes, I know, this is C++ redone in C) and are structured in
   a tree. More about this later, but basically it allows the following
   nice features:
    - several interfaces
    - several playlists with several outputs
    - input plugins spawning helper interfaces (will be used for DVD menus)
    - anything spawning anything; I swear there are useful uses for this!

  * libvlc can be used in other programs; I'm currently writing a Mozilla
   plugin for my employer.

   Things currently broken:
   ========================

  * most interfaces, most ports
  * the playlist handling (almost finished rewriting this though). This means
   no file can be played from the GUI, you need to use the commandline. This
   also means it segfaults at EOF, when exiting the program, and it sometimes
   refuses to open a file when asked to.

    and mipspro doesn't know about __inline__).

    * ALL : version from ffmpeg cvs can now decode msmpeg4 v1 v2 ,
        so i have added support for this. But you can always use old ffmpeg
        library  without any problem ( i hope ;)

    * include/common.h and input_ext-plugins.h, src/misc/modules_plugin.h : export input_ClockGetTS for plugins.
    * plugins/mpeg_system/mpeg_audio.c : a demux for mpeg audio stream (file, web radio ...)
    * Makefile configure.in : to compile it