You have to use sout-keep option on your broadcast media using 
 > setup your_media option sout-keep
The default value is no-sout-keep and command line option --sout-keep
will not activate it (on purpose).

of libvlc-control (what's that ?).
 It will need to be rewritten when VLM API is fixed.

* added ugly, but working support for future, powerpc-based darwin releases. this doesn't support intel-Macs yet

- Do not use non-thread-safe stuff

VLC never resolves network service names, it only uses port numbers.

This will not change your life.

 * Fix forbiden windows characters list. (in fact it's not windows only, but fat32/ntfs ... but noone cares)

Qt4 - SPrefs : Input Panel. almost all implementations, but not the macro-ones (network-caching and disk-device )

Fix a hang when quitting vlc on Mac OS X. This hang is due to the signal thread that isn't cancelled properly, because Mac OS X's sigwait is not a pthread cancellation point as it ought to be according to POSIX.1.

of VLM that should not have been public)

Also restore (albeit not hard-coded this time) the old Linux custom
of not waiting for a delay shorter than the scheduler precision

Missing piece pointed out by Pierre d'H.

Of course, VLC has no bugs, so you never need to abort it that way,
so that this fixes nothing.