(see my last mail).
* aout: Rewrote our whole lock policy. The output thread now doesn't require
  the mixer_lock, which might avoid delays. We will also be able to change
  the filter pipelines at runtime.

* 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.

    about a missing m4/Makefile.in.
  * ./include/vlc_common.h: workaround for Borland's redefinition of PACKAGE.

* Audio and video should now _always_ be perfectly in sync.
* Changes in a52.c (end_date management) must be ported to other codecs,
  otherwise mixer errors will appear.
* Audio output plug-in can now tell whether they can handle a little
  clock drift (for instance, inserting zeroes after a pause).

    because <gnome.h> already does it for us.

    vlc_object_find() but returns a list of _all_ the matching objects. Only
    works with FIND_ANYWHERE at the moment.
  * ./modules/gui/gtk/preferences.c, ./modules/gui/kde/preferences.cpp,
    ./modules/gui/win32/preferences.cpp: the module lists in the preferences
    menus work again.
  * ./src/misc/objects.c: added a missing sizeof that caused crashes because
    the reindexing of the global object array was incomplete.
  * ./include/modules_inner.h: propagated the module long description to its
    submodules.

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

  * ALL: lots of -ansi -pedantic fixes.

    demux plugins (ps, ts, but also dvd*).
  * ./src/input/mpeg_system.c: removed MPEG-related stuff from the vlc core.
  * ./src/misc/modules.c: max recursion level is now 5.
  * ./modules/access/dvdplay/es.c: fixed a buffer overflow.

    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).

  * 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.

  * ./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.

* ./doc/vlc-howto.sgml : Fixed typos ;
* ./include/vlc_common.h : Greatly simplified ntoh*, and U??_AT macros are
  now alignment-safe ;
* ./STATUS : New file indicating who's working on what. Please keep it
  up-to-date ;
* ./MAINTAINERS : New file indicating who has knowledge on which parts.

    strndup to a separate file so that Win32 can benefit from it.
  * ./include/vlc_threads.h: Borland compilation fix.

    to be still crashing.

  * ./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.

* ./include/vlc_common.h: got rid of i_thread in VLC_COMMON_MEMBERS.

* ./include/vlc_threads.h: re-merged vlc_threads.h and threads_funcs.h.

  * ./include/main.h: replaced p_sys with explicit variables because it's
    really much simpler this way. Gildas, will you ever forgive me ? :-)

   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.

  * ./src/misc/iso_lang.c: the language prototypes now use the const keyword.

    and mipspro doesn't know about __inline__).

when closing a  networking stream instead of input_FDClose().  It is due
to WIN32  because we have  to call  closesocket() instead of  close() to
close the socket. The problem was  : windows did not leave the multicast
group when closing the socket.

  * input_ext-plugins.c : where is located the function
  * *.h : function declaration
  * udp.c, http.c : these modules now call input_FDNetworkClose()

  * include/common.h, src/misc/modules_plugin.h: export the 3 new functions.
  * plugins/dvd/dvd_es.c, plugins/dvd/dvd_summary.c, plugins/dvdread/input_dvdread.c: adapted DecodeLanguage calls to the new behaviour.
  * plugins/mpeg_system/mpeg_ts.c: ISO-639-2 descriptors handling.

    * 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

    options callbacks.

    They don't take any argument for the moment, but this will change when
    I'm finished with my other vlc changes. There is a little problem: the
    Gtk+ interface keeps calling Put***Variable each time we click on "Apply"
    or "Save". I think it should only call it once. Is there a way to fix
    this? Gildas? lool? :-)

* moved the function definitions from threads.h into threads_funcs.h. This
   allows us to move p_main_sys into p_main (p_main->p_sys).
* fixed the --with-gtk-config-path and --with-sdl-config-path options in
   configure.in

  * ./include/video.h: moved vout_CopyPicture out of the way, an inline
    function did not make sense here.
  * ./include/video.h: moved vout_ChromaCmp out of the way.
  * ./plugins/avi/fourcc.h, ./include/video.h: merged these two files into
    video.h.
  * ./include/os_specific.h: this file is now always included.
  * ./include/debug.h: removed this file which was almost useless, and moved
    ASSERT to common.h.
  * ./include/common.h: fixed vlc_memalign and changed its prototype to
    follow posix_memalign's.

* Added a mpeg_ts_dvbpsi module tha uses libdvbpsi to decode PSIs. It is
  used by default if the lib is found. It shares much code with mpeg_ts

  * ALL: renamed PLUGINS to __PLUGINS__ to avoid conflicts with libraries
    defining it. Grmbl.
  * ./src/input/input_ext-plugins.c: cosmetic change.

* added config_GetFloatVariable() and config_PutFloatVariable() to the config
  module.
* added a --zoom <float> config option.
* added a call to RestoreCPUState() in InitIDCT() in idct_sparse.h so that the
  FPU is still available after a call to InitIDCT().
* deactivate stream buffering when logging to a file.

  * ALL: internationalized all configuration strings.
  * ./src/interface/main.c: we now set LC_CTYPE to get the right charset.
  * ./src/misc/configuration.c: lots of simplifications in the code.
  * ./po/vlc/pot: updated translations.