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misc/objects.c: Don't rely on vlc_object_destroy() to destroy objects, but expects vlc_object_release to do it when the refcount goes to zero.
* Meaning, that when created objects gets a refcount to 1.
* Destroying is instantaneous and we don't have to poll for a few secondss or so to wait until the object's refcount reach 0.
* We now track vlc_object_t's mem leaks when libvlc_global is released (Hard error for now, so they don't get unoticed)
* We fail hard if an object is released with a refcount of 1 without being detached from its parent and its children, to make sure such cases don't go unoticed.
(make test or make check still pass after that one. VLC is known to leak one object when no module is loaded, this must be fixed).

Missing some cases that I could not test.
Also ffmpeg/chroma.c is locked, so I can but leave it broken.
Fix is for the remaining modules is obvious and the issue is easy to detect.

input/input.c: Define DEMUX_CAN_SEEK and correctly set "seekable" accordingly. (This could introduce regression such as seekable item no more seekable, but I should have greped enough...).

Made demux2_IsPathExtension case insensitive.
Used demux2_IsPathExtension/p_demux->b_force when appropriate
Fixed a regression in flac demuxer (segfault when reading meta data)
Added a VLC_UNUSED(x) macro to avoid seeing ugly (void)x around the code.
Improved a bit a few vlc_common.h macro (do {} while(0))

* Protect input item's meta through setters and getters. That allows tracking of input item meta info changes.
* vlc_meta_t gains a table for accessing its non-extra meta.

vlc one, fixed segfault with x11 at least)

This also seems to make the pre-existing Qt4 crash more obvious.

* Headers in include must contain the structures and prototypes needed
  by the plugins and should be named vlc_*.
* Headers in include/vlc must contain the structures and prototypes
  needed by external libvlc clients

* Moved and renamed some things in headers. 
   - Removed vlc_cpu.h, vlc_error.h (merged in vlc_common)
   - Removed snapshot.h (merged in vlc_vout.h)
   - Removed vlc_spu.h (merged in vlc_osd.h)
   - Removed intf_eject.h and vlc_interaction.h (merged in vlc_interface)
   - Moved all internal headers to src
   - Merged vlc_video.h and video_output.h and move private things to src
   - Removed vlc/intf.h, vlc/aout.h, vlc/vout.h, vlc/decoder.h and vlc/input.h
     (meta headers for use in modules, and often implying too large 
     dependencies)
* Removed some useless dependencies
* Unexported a bunch of functions and structures used only in src/
  (--> Still some work here)
* Finally made input_thread_t and input_source_t (mostly) private. 
  Added input_GetItem to fetch the input_item of an input_thread
* Cleaned up deprecated entries in vlc_symbols.h and bumped up symbol 
  prefix

This commit has a 99% probability of breaking the build, 0.1% of killing
your cat and 0% of getting you hot chicks.

Also, make it clearer what is shared and instance-specific

So,
libvlc_t ==> libvlc_global_t
vlc_t ==> libvlc_int_t (internal instance)

p_object->p_libvlc ==> p_object->p_libvlc_globale
p_object->p_vlc ==> p_object->p_libvlc

VLC_OBJECT_VLC ==> VLC_OBJECT_LIBVLC

And by the way, there is some cleanup required :) (ie, some things are created in the global object instead of the instance-specific one)

* browsed through all code files starting with A to F and added non-blocking intf_UserFatal calls next to msg_err where I think that it is necessary.
I tried to select the most important msg_errs. If I missed your favourite, feel free to add it.
Feedback on the wording and the placement of the interaction calls is strongly welcomed.

For the records: I'm using some general topics for most of the dialogues to produce less work for the translators. The current ones go like this:
"Audio output failed", "Network interaction failed", "Streaming / Transcoding failed", "Audio filtering failed", "File reading failed", "Playback failure"

More to come.

What is currently broken:
 * Some playlist demuxers (shout, dvb and pls)
 * DAAP
 * BeOS playlist
 * GPE playlist, I suppose

What has some trouble:
 * Meta handling in several demuxers (most notably TS)
 * Skins2 playlist (doesn't refresh correctly)
 * OS X playlist (see bigben's latest commits)

dvdnav.patch: changed code that read DVD title to use dvdread APIs, so that WIN32 and non-unix platforms can also read it
dvdnav.c: add DVD title to meta information

   specified (an empty string), forward the empty string to libdvdcss
   and let it do autodetection.
 * extras/contrib/src/Patches: Patched libdvdread to accept an empty
   string as a device path.

   autodetection.

(da big courmischage)

* modules/access/dvdnav.c, src/video_output/vout_subpictures.c: Use the proper palette for DVD menus.

* GET_TIME is inaccurate, because it is based on average block duration.
* In case skipping to DVD_MENU_Title fails try DVD_MENU_Root. Otherwise we might go directly to the movie instead of the menu, which I find less desirable then viewing the FBI warnings.

 so it doesn't conflict with the one from the adjust filter

* renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
* renamed --spu-language to --sub-language
* added note to NEWS about changed names of options