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This reverts commit 9f9f6d11.

The XCB/XVideo (for a long time) and the XCB/X11 (since the commit
before the previous one) video output plugins will fail safe in case
the embedding window has an alpha channel. In VLC 1.0, the Xlib plugins
needed this hack as the Xlib error handler would terminate VLC.

If compositing is in use, VLC will now use GLX. This will require
software chroma conversion from YUV to RGB. Also, unless the GLX output
is explicitly selected, VLC will flash twice before it starts rendering.
First, it tries (and fail) to use XVideo, then plain X11. To fix this
cosmetic problem, we would need to keep the window across plugins.

I assume this change is needed to fix #3581, but I have not tested, so
it may or may not be sufficient.

This trick does not work with Qt <= 4.5 unfortunately.

Ensure that stdio and libintl won't do heap allocations beforehand.

Parental advisory: explicit hack.

If kfilemodule is loaded, bypass run cleanup handlers. Library really
should not use this C feature in any case (IMHO). And I find it
outright idiotic for a (Qt4) plugin to use cleanup handlers.
This is causing so many crash reports that it's not funny anymore:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vlc/+bug/408719

This reverts commit 3dd62c35.

Suppress VLC media player <version> message if --quiet is passed as
first argument. Feel free to revert if this is an issue.

Move it from libvlc where it didn't work to vlc binary where it really
should be

Now VLC can be started from dock again after [13d838b6]

This saves all third party LibVLC application from having to set it
(The library depending on VLC configuration was really lame IMHO).

(This is a bit hackish as the conversion is not completed)

Fixes #2984

This leaves the choice for bindings to use it or not.

I wish we did the same for hotkeys and inhibit but it would break
backward libvlc API compatibility.

This reverts commit 364868f9.
On deeper look, this deadlocks in all kind of places. I guess we'll
have to live with the racy Xlib behavior instead.

Conflicts:

	configure.ac

We need to call XInitThreads before anyone tries XOpenDisplay or
something, and XInitThreads itself is not re-entrant, so call it before
we start LibVLC. This only "fixes" Xlib with VLC. Other LibVLC users
need to do something similar themselves. LibVLC cannot do it. Other
application may have already connected to X before it starts LibVLC.

This allows using the http interface directly when builddir != srcdir.
This is needed to get rid of the ./vlc script.

By the way, the exception handler claims the exception is not handled!

Embedded platforms often only have the root user. Do not, I repeat, Do not enable this option if you don't know what you're doing.

Revert "Don't mess with the build system a single day (git revert 83b35c64 -n!) before a major (git revert 83b35c64 -n) release"

Unbreak Linux build.

This reverts commit f806629f.

Don't mess with the build system a single day (git revert 83b35c64 -n!) before a major (git revert 83b35c64 -n) release