less than that of the planar version (uses nearest neighboor instead of
interpolated colors)

Fixes a bunch of crashes at exit.

It needs to be done by the parent (VLM or playlist)

vlc_threadobj() is no use otherwise. People may want not to enable
reference checking all the time also...

with an ugly green in packed YUV).

Ugly hack to make the filter chain work correctly for the video output core. This will be removed once all the different picture release methods have been merged into one coherent method.

a lot of code everywhere a filter_t chain is used ("video filter2":
vout core, transcode, chain.c video filter; "sub filter": spu_Init;
"audio filter2": transcode; the other types of filter_t objects are
never chained)

Btw, why aren't "audio filter2" filters used anywhere in the aout core?

Note that it seems to suck badly, but as I get the same awful results
with RTSP+live555, I have to assume eitehr the whole synchro is broken
or the stream output is