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* ALL : Added a priority argument to vlc_thread_create(), so that audio
and input threads can run with a higher real-time priority, on systems
allowing you to use priorities.

* Prepared for some advances in the aout3 clock management.
* Added the first stone of the forthcoming stream output.

    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).

  src/input/*: removed some testcode and some unnecessary debug messages

* ./src/input/* : fixed a memory leak

    configuration items.
  * rest: new input info subsystem.

Have a look in plugins/mpeg_system/mpeg_audio.c to see how to add info.
Have a look in plugins/text/rc.c to see how to read info.


Sigmund

    extra plugin location.
  * ./plugins/text/rc.c: if stdin/stdout are not connected to a TTY, we
    don't launch the rc interface.
  * ./plugins/access/http.c: fixed a compilation warning.
  * ./src/misc/messages.c: cosmetic enhancements in the message output.

    implementation to avoid races, by using SetEvent instead of PulseEvent.

    to be still crashing.

  * ./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.

  * ./src/interface/interface.c: interfaces are no longer attached only to
    p_vlc.
  * ./src/libvlc.c, ./src/misc/modules.c, ./src/playlist/playlist.c,
    ./src/input/input.c: improvements in the playlist handling (not quite that
    yet though).
(ported from v0_4_1_branch)
  * ./configure.in, ./plugins/mpeg_system/mpeg_ts.c: fixed libdvbpsi handling.
  * ./src/misc/configuration.c: fixed the --nofoo option handling.
  * ./src/interface/main.c: fixed two compilation warnings under Solaris.

  * ./src/playlist/playlist.c, src/input/input.c: added safety checks to
    prevent crashes on next file.
(ported from 0_4_1_branch)
  * ./plugins/gtk/gtk_display.c, ./plugins/win32/mainframe.cpp: we deactivate
    popup menus when no stream is being played, even in network mode.
  * ./src/input/mpeg_system.c: removed unnecessarily verbose message.

   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.

    network data was present.

  * ./src/input/input_dec.c: removed useless code.
  * ./src/input/input.c, ./plugins/gtk/gtk.c: fixed access to uninitialized
    variables.
  * ./plugins/dvd/dvd_demux.c: fixed the pf_demux return value.

  * ALL: removed underscores from option names and made a few options more
    self-explanatory, for instance --input_channel becomes --audio-channel;
    run vlc -H to see what has changed.
  * ALL: replaced many occurences of "plugin" with the word "module".
  * ./src/interface/main.c: moved all satellite-specific configuration options
    to the satellite plugin.
  * ./po/*: updated translations.

* made file access plugin use input_SetProgram so that we may change
  program when reading a file
* fixed a bug in input_SetProgram
* added --input_program <int> option, to choose the program from
  the command line

* Disabled memcpyaltivec since it's buggy

  * skip "//" if we find "://" in a resource we have to play : this allows us to use the syntax udpstream://host.

  * ./Makefile: fixed OS X vlc.app compilation dependencies.
  * ./configure.in: fixed the endianness check under Solaris.

  * ./src/input/input.c: strings are now initialized to "" instead of NULL.

  * ./plugins/spudec/spu_decoder.c: we now properly support the subtitle
    palette information we get from the DVD. Subtitles rox !
  * ./src/video_output/vout_subpictures.c: removed all DVD-specific routines
    and put them into spu_decoder.c.

* New GTK configuration interface. This interface is generated dynamically
  at run-time from the configuration data contained in each plugin.
* config_PutPszVariable and config_GetPszVariable are now thread safe.
* Few modifications/optimizations to the config module.
* Got rid of all the _VAR macros in config.h

This is the first version of the GTK configuration interface. There are still
a few raw corners and a fews things left to do, but it basically does what
I wanted.
Constructive comments like it sucks or it smells rotten fish are of course
very welcome. And if there are GTK gurus out there, please don't hesitate to
add your touch.

I also started to add usefull comments to the configuration options but I'm not
really good at this kind of thing so if people want to help, they can finish
the job. For this look at all the *_LONGTEXT macros at the top of main.c

(PS: Translations will also be appreciated but not right now as the interface
will likely change again in the few coming days)

*Fixed EOF segfault at end of DVD

*Buffer manager is renintialised at area change.

*Removed an occurance of former angle item in gtk.

*Fixed a bug in ES management introduced lately in DVD/DvdRead.

*Beginning of reorganisation in DVD plugin source files, in order to try to
make it easier to understand. There is some work left though :p.

*Decreased the score for VCD plugin, as the VCD demuxer was used even
for DVD :p. It should make autodetection work.
Some comment:
-I think that VCDInit should make a test on the access plugin and be launched
only if the access plugin is VCD,
-VCDOpen shouldn't set p_input->b_error: if it fails we just try another
module,
-PSRead doesn't need to be duplicated anymore: input_ReadPS is now available
for plugins (cf Christophe's commit).

Please comment around that: I'd like to know if the behaviour I've described
is the one everyone expects.

Enjoy my new bugs :p

* fixed typo in the win32 change to the input parser.

* this time I actually commited the win32 modif to the input parser ;-)

 * Fixed DVD input under Win32.
 * Fixed input parser under win32, chich couldn't understand that
c:\windows\bureau is a valid file and doesn't need to be accessed with
the plugin 'C' :-)
 * BTW, I added myself in the AUTHORS file :)

   * ./plugins/dummy/input_dummy.c: fixed `vlc vlc:quit'.
   * ./src/input/input.c: initialized uninitialized variables.

*Initiliaze p_access_module & p_demux_modules to NULL when input thread
in created.

*dvd and dvdread support for input III.

Dvdread is known to segfault at title change. I'm working on this.

- Major rewrite of the buffer core functions
- Modularity of access plugins (file, udp, http)
- Modularity of network stack (ipv4, soon ipv6)
- Autodetection of the type of stream

And a new killing feature : HTTP streams are now seekable.

Please note that dvd, dvdread and vcd plug-ins are broken and thus disabled.

  * ./src/input/input.c: BeOS network support (no idea if it works when you
    don't have BONE, though).

Multicast now works under Win32, but this is a _bad_ kludge.

It still segfaults 4 secondes after the first frame, but, at least, I
can see two or three frames from MI2 :-)

  * ./include/threads.h: support for the State Threads Library, a userland
    threads library (http://state-threads.sourceforge.net/). Useless to most
    people, but can be handy to debug stuff. Activate with `--enable-st'.

This is the first part of the new configuration architecture for vlc.
Two other parts will follow soon:
- config file implementation
- gtk configuration interface.

This part won't change much for end-users as these changes are mostly
internal, you will however notice that the command line interface has
changed. It will maybe be less user-friendly as I almost removed the
short options but it shouldn't a big problem when the config file is
implemented.

What as changed is that it is really easy now to add configuration
options to vlc. Plugins can also implement configuration options. All
you have to do is to declare a MODULE_CONFIG section in your plugin.
If you want to know more about this look at configuration.h and for some
example: main.c, dsp.c or xvideo.c

It would be nice if every developper could now start using configuration
options in there plugins and also enhance old plugins.

That's it, now let's hope I didn't break too many things ;-)

   * Got rid of TRACE and intf_DbgMsg which were seldom used anyway.
   * All intf_*Msg functions now write to stderr.
   * Implemented a message queue interface plugins can subscribe to.
   * Wrote the logger interface plugin. Usage:
      vlc -I logger:filename.log
   * Lots of fixes in the SPU renderer.

  * ALL: got rid of *_Probe functions because most of them were duplicates
    of the real _Init or _Create functions. That's 1000 lines of code gained.
  * ./src/misc/modules.c: we try not to keep the global lock in module_Need,
    which should speed up output spawning.
  * ./plugins/dummy/input_dummy.c: fixed vlc:quit command.
  * ./plugins/gtk/gtk_playlist.c: compilation fix.
  * ./plugins/macosx/*: preliminary fixes for the vout4 port.

   Notes on the *_Probe eradication:
  o I probably broke the DirectX video output, because of the "must init and
    run in the same thread" issue. I'll fix this ASAP.
  o Subtitles are broken (or at least, pretty ugly) in RGB mode.
  o The input plugins still have *_Probe functions. This will disappear when
    meuuh is finished with the access plugins.
  o The decoder plugins still have *_Probe functions. This is probably not
    going to change, it looks OK to me.

* mad PTS should finally be accurate
* Some configure changes.