The day i understand strings and memory in C is going to be a joyful day :)
* modules/demux/mkv.cpp: fixed an error if there is no ICONV support

* include/vlc_codec.h: defines decoders/encoders related structures here.
* include/vlc_video.h: new video_frame_format_t structure which defines the properties of a video frame.
* include/vlc/decoder.h: include vlc_codec.h
* src/misc/objects.c: added VLC_OBJECT_PACKETIZER and VLC_OBJECT_ENCODER object types.
* modules/stream_out/transcode.c, modules/codec/theora.c: experimental theora video encoder.
* src/input/*: some cleanup.

    + Better BeOS dynamic loader detection.
  * src/misc/modules.c:
    + Consistency fixes.

    + As platform-dependant dynamic loader functions are no longer inline,
      moved them to modules.c which is their real place.
    + More verbose error messages on some platforms.

    module loading to fail.

    loader.

    + First try to detect the OS X native dynamic linker before falling
      back to dlfcn.h.
    + Enhanced the dlopen-style loader detection.
    + Added a check for HP-UX's shl_* functins.
  * src/misc/modules_plugin.h.in:
    + Support for the dylib dynamic loader on OS X.
    + Support for the shl dynamic loader on HP-UX.

* include/os_specific.h, src/libvlc.[c,h], src/misc/win32_specific.c: new win32 specific option (--one-instance) to have only one instance of vlc running at once.
 Running another vlc (with --one-instance as well) will only transfer the requested playlist items to the first instance.

 * changed project name from 'vlc' to 'VLC'
 * excluded src/extras from the documentation
src/misc/variables.c, include/variables.h:
 * Doxygen-documented most of the vlc variables code

* src/misc/modules.c: removed an old win32 hack which was creating more problems than it was solving.

* include/main.h, src/libvlc.c, src/libvlc.h, src/misc/configuration.c: added a --config, --save-config and --reset-config option to the command line.
* modules/gui/wxwindows/preferences.cpp: fixed breakeage of "Save", "Reset" and SwitchAdvanced().

* configure.ac, mozilla/vlcshell.cpp, mozilla/support/npwin.cpp: mozilla plugin for win32 is finally working (well there's still work left).
* src/misc/modules.c: small clean-up and fixed --plugin-path on win32.

 first search  the root of  the object  using p_parent and  not directly
 using p_vlc. If this first search  failed then we search using p_vlc if
 it wasn't the  case. (I'm not sure  it's harmless but I  think it's the
 correct behavour for FIND_ANYWHERE)

 * src/video_output/video_output.c  : we could now  use FIND_ANYWHERE to
 catch the  playlist (even when the  vlc is exiting. (Hehe, now visual
 effects won't reopen the vout every playlist item.)

 * playlist : use new input variables.

 object variables and begin to use pf_demux_control.
 * variables: new time type handling.

* ALL: Introduction of a new api for decoders.
   The final aim of this new api is to make it possible to use the decoders from other modules like the transcoder for instance.
   Only a few decoders have been ported to the new api (a52, libmpeg2, dts, vorbis, theora) so the old api is still supported.

   Don't hold your breath, there is still much work to do before we reach this goal.

* modules/codec/a52.c, libmpeg2., dts.c, vorbis.c, theora.c:
   Converted to the new api.
   Merged the a52 and vorbis packetizers in their respective decoders (removes a lot of code duplication).
   New dts and theora packetizers (merged in their respective decoders).

  gprof. If you still want to profile pthread applications using gprof please
  see http://sam.zoy.org/writings/programming/gprof.html and also consider
  using oprofile if you are using ia32.

special goom tree source as I was unable to use standard goom library.
(I will provide it once mmx/ppc included)
 * modules/visualization/Modules.am: added goom
 * include/vlc_block.h src/misc/block.c: introduce a new data block
 api (not yet tested, ported from my local new input work).

  fix broken tree

  in use by the OS. It's pretty nifty. if available it uses nl_langinfo. Then
  it falls back to trying setlocale (exept on OSX, where this funtion is useless)
  and then falls back to LC_ALL, LC_TYPE and LANG environment variables.
  If only the LANG variable is available (like on osx) it tries a countrycode
  to charset mapping (making an educated guess ).
  On windows it retrieves the charset with GetACP().
  It also has an aliases system to transform incompatible charset description
  strings to libiconv compatible charset descriptions. If you want you can even
  retrieve the charset on OS/2.
* modules/codec/subsdec/subsdec.c: By default we try to open a subtitle file in
  the systems charset (or language mapped to charset). It's no more than a guess,
  and if you open Latin1 subs on your Japanese system you will still need to
  specify the encoding by hand, but it's better then nothing.
* src/playlist/playlist.c: spelling error in a comment.

src, and build it in the stream_out_standard module to avoid a link

include/configuration.h, src/misc/configuration.h:
 * added a CONFIG_ITEM_KEY
include/vlc_keys.h:
 * constants to identify keys
src/libvlc.h:
 * provide a set of hotkey config options
modules/gui/wxwindows/interface.cpp, wxwindows.h:
 * set the configured hotkeys as accelerator for the appropriate menus
modules/gui/wxwindows/preferences.cpp:
 * start to support CONFIG_ITEM_KEY. Options are showed with the right value
   but any changes made have no effect yet.

* src/misc/configuration.c, include/configuration.h, src/audio_output/intf.c, include/audio_output.h, modules/gui/gtk/display.[ch]: configuration variables now use vlc_callback_t callbacks (same as the object variables).
* modules/video_output/x11/*: support for the _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN hint from the Extended Window Manager Hints spec.
* modules/audio_output/alsa.c: support for 4.0 and 5.1 audio channels. This time it has been tested ;)

* src/misc/win32_specific.c: change the mode of stdin to _O_BINARY so we can use stdin to read files (thanks to Steve Li).
* modules/control/http.c: allow directories of the form "x:\" on win32.

* src/misc/modules.c: if module_Need() was passed an interface module name, respect this choice even if vlc was run with a specific interface shortcut.

* modules/misc/freetype.c, modules/demux/util/sub.c: cleanup.
* modules/demux/util/sub.h: thou shall do a vlc_object_attach().
* src/misc/variables.c: added VLC_VAR_FILE and VLC_VAR_DIRECTORY inheritance support.

* include/variables.h, src/misc/variables.c: you can now use var_Create() directly to create an object variable with an inherited value.
   eg. var_Create( p_vout, "zoom", VLC_VAR_FLOAT | VLC_VAR_DOINHERIT );
   Beware, the object in which you create the var must be attached to a parent for this to work (otherwise we can't navigate the parents hierarchy to find the value to inherit).

* src/input/input.c, src/input/input_programs.c, src/video_output/video_output.c: converted more config_GetFoo() into var_Create()/var_Get();

* ALL: changes to the playlist_Add() and VLC_AddTarget() proto to include a list of options associated with the input.
* src/input/input.c: parses the input options list before spawning the input and create object variables for these options. Options are of the form "[no[-]]foo[=bar]" where foo is the option name and bar is its value.
* src/input/input.c, src/input/input_dec.c: use the object var api to get the value of the "sout", "sout-video" and "sout-audio" options.
* src/libvlc.c: extended the command line parser to parse input options. Input options must always follow the input they apply to and begin with a ':'.

All these changes allow you to specify input specific options.
eg: ./vlc --no-sout-audio yourvideo.mpeg :sout=udp/http::8080 :sout-audio yourvideo2.mpeg
Here the ":sout" option will only apply to yourvideo.mpeg.
"--no-sout-audio" will be a global option so will apply to yourvideo2.mpeg but the global behaviour is overriden by ":sout-audio" for yourvideo.mpeg.

TODO: - the interfaces need to be modified to benefit from the new playlist_Add() api.
      - only "sout", "sout-video", "sout-audio" implemented for now. To make it work with other options, we need to get rid of all the config_GetFoo() and replace them with var_Create()/var_Change()/var_Get().

* modules/gui/wxwindows/interface.cpp: small improvements to the volume control.

* src/libvlc.h: disabled the encoders config options (encoders are not used anymore, all the encoding is done in the stream output transcode module).
* src/misc/win32_specific.c: added an --high-priority config option on win32 to increase the priority of the process (default enabled for now so the behaviour isn't changed.)

* modules/audio_output/alsa.c: alsa is now the default audio output.
* src/misc/configuration.c: removed unnecessary line.
* modules/gui/skins/parser.*: small cosmetic change.