As a side effect, this workaround the AAC decoding problem after pause/seek
when going through our packetizer (eg: pause/seek with vlc VOD).

But the bug is still there : faad will stop decoding audio forever after
receiving a buffer full of 0 (at least with faad2-2.5 from
audiocoding.com, faad2 from mplayer svn does not show this problem)

as soon as possible to allow decoders to flush (well that part need to
be implemented ;)

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.