* Support for Topfield .rec recordings. It's MPEG-TS with an exceptionally large (1MB) header in front of it.
  I tried adding the info in the header to meta, but the existing documention seems incorrect or at least incomplete. Instead we just accept the start of the header as identifying a MPEG-TS file, and skipping the header.

  BTW this header is again an example of very bad format design. It is using fixed length strings, for which the used buffers clearly are not null'ed before written with new information. As such i was able to determine which programs were running before this program was recorded :D
  Also a PID printed to a field was clearly not printed to null'ed memory, causing an invalid (too high) PID number to be in the field. You'd think the least someone could do when designing something like this, would be to analyze a hexdump of your own custom header.

*** NOT MEANT FOR BACKPORTING ***

* What is the point in having a detection for libvc1 if we don't have a libvc1 module ? Moreover, that prevents jlj's patch with the module from applying.

* Marillat changed the path to the win32 codecs in his latest packages, so look for the codecs there too

   you are supposed to pass frequency * 16000 instead of frequency * 16.
   This is sooo coherent.

I chose to re-add the align paramter to the subpicture region struct, since adding a style struct for every single subpicture for just an alignment seemed to be overkill to me. 

* first update of the German translation by Mathias C. Berens | welcome-soft and myself. More to come.

   backwards compatibility with the old http intf (anyway MVLC_ADD is
   obsoleted by RPN function playlist_add).

If you think playtree is not ready yet, yell :)

I was actually trying to understand why command line option parsing on my computer with self compiled VLC behaves as "If the first character of optstring is '+' or the environment variable POSIXLY_CORRECT is set, then option processing stops as soon as a non-option argument is encountered." while neither of these conditions is true (see the while( getopt_long( ... ) != EOF ) loop).
Small illustration:
./vlc -vvv -I dummy input.ts --color
All options before the first non option argument work as expected (-vvv and -I dummy). All options after the first non option argument are also interpreted as being non option arguments.
Help would be appreciated.
(I've already had reports of other people having the same kind of issues)