We assume it is present in plenty of places anyway

This requires support for fdopendir(). One open() and fstat() calls per
input file are avoided. Ok, this is not such a major improvement).
This should also work around brain-damaged file system drivers such as
Linux HFS+, whereby opendir() succeeds on regular files.

directory does not register the "fd" shortcut, so the standard input
case should not occur.

(You can't read ahead a pipe)

InputSourceInit() does it globally already

We have too much false positive with this script.
Feel free to revert or to remove.

Attempt to run scripts in share/lua/meta/fetcher.

The result of meta fetching is not cached (except the artwork), but this could be an envisionned goal for the media library.

fix crash when switching phonon backends on the fly, remember to stop libvlc media player before releasing it
Signed-off-by: Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb@videolan.org>

'length' is still used for backward compatibility (even if most of the client
seems to use mtime and time and to use length only if the two first meta
aren't found).

specifications and the ones added by vlc).

Print a list of available alsa output devices in debug output if the user specified a non existing device. Simple example to get the listing: /vlc --aout alsa,none --alsa-audio-device bla -vvv file.mp3 --verbose-objects -all,+alsa

This is not needed anymore. Modules are not in the bank at all anymore
if they require an incompatible CPU feature.