On Windows playing items like dvd:// or screen:// causes strange shortcuts in the user recently used folder.

See http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/nb-NO/w7itprogeneral/thread/02a71215-e308-408c-94a6-81f5a8e564a6
for some information. The solution calls SHAddToRecentDocs only if make_path
returns a valid path.

Patch by anonymous VlcVelope
Signed-off-by: Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb@videolan.org>
(cherry picked from commit 391bb3272583cbe41c5dfec60141b76e9fd61d0e)
(cherry picked from commit 06ceac25f5d7a30ee585cb0f1c0b925f31234d74)
Signed-off-by: Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb@videolan.org>

This is not fully fixed, but it works after a state change

Patch from anonymous VlcVelope
(cherry picked from commit 1fc1506a8ff78d0ef8c5f8d2d77634ba6e8b4b12)
Signed-off-by: Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb@videolan.org>

Close #5898
Signed-off-by: Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb@videolan.org>
(cherry picked from commit 6e3489732966f4b124b4d68a53988b593c08777b)
Signed-off-by: Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb@videolan.org>

Close #6812
(cherry picked from commit 16c1b2916cf36a8e9c218ab856a62f289f6d2d80)
Signed-off-by: Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb@videolan.org>

Close #6813
(cherry picked from commit 88a69655ae94b045d84fd9d45daf155e1728a65a)
Signed-off-by: Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb@videolan.org>

Pointed-By: Clément Lecigne
(cherry picked from commit 08879e4e4284cd5359578731701195e5d19c2f20)
Signed-off-by: Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb@videolan.org>

(cherry picked from commit 0ef62578e5b6e06e67868e8a9e2ac11d4436b5da)
Signed-off-by: Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb@videolan.org>

an option to switch the modes is in the works
(cherry picked from commit 81162e722f2f92e6415d7947416823486992b073)

This avoids leaking the Unix socket to child processes.
(cherry picked from commit cb11b7841319bd9017b76229291223c49b40d219)

(cherry picked from commit 619b980ef0eb9b91fd45b2657d810c324401e0b2)

(cherry picked from commit 6acd0f4c54dcd69d029106c2465cba19d99ff24b)
Signed-off-by: Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb@videolan.org>

This is just a partial fix.
Fixes #6148
(cherry picked from commit 114a88bc426ee433e0d060c5d74caaaf10a7fab1)
Signed-off-by: Pierre Ynard <linkfanel@yahoo.fr>

(cherry picked from commit 760668e7a6accb3046207b7ae426e509cf73dc7f)

(cherry picked from commit 52197b014bebfd9744aac4ad34f3e3d379abd53c)

This plugin can cause VLC to crash or exit prematurely. Sicne it is
mostly useless and mostly superseded by the coloured variant,
lets disable it unless explicitly selected.

This should fix LP#971106.
(cherry picked from commit 5a772cbf7d490bc9cffa6c2f97c5fd2d3e30f068)

(cherry picked from commit 9984e74dbff847645ae0e63db96bcd249568b7a4)

This is now the same as was already implemented in the
set_relative_playlist_position_and_play() method.
(cherry picked from commit c64c794ee123b8a7d57682db6b753bf1dadec54f)
Signed-off-by: Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb@videolan.org>

(cherry picked from commit deb8ae92650b4b112fada9b4c7b8ba3c71ed74d7)
Signed-off-by: David Fuhrmann <david.fuhrmann@googlemail.com>

(cherry picked from commit da65be4390a8cbe466840f76d13965a4893bbd7a)
Signed-off-by: David Fuhrmann <david.fuhrmann@googlemail.com>

(cherry picked from commit 3b3a8924773effa59c8e85b6075fd8c659c6e39a)
Signed-off-by: David Fuhrmann <david.fuhrmann@googlemail.com>

(cherry picked from commit 3d649ef6e18e0d13faf8deaf28eb17de55be5df4)
Signed-off-by: David Fuhrmann <david.fuhrmann@googlemail.com>

(cherry picked from commit a2347e5728d0c6749172f43ce40387338224103e)
Signed-off-by: David Fuhrmann <david.fuhrmann@googlemail.com>

(cherry picked from commit 2aa0ad9c3da62df3f31ff317bd747eb0b8524b71)
Signed-off-by: David Fuhrmann <david.fuhrmann@googlemail.com>

(cherry picked from commit dc5988addd4d36655fcbce3fbb39e817ef88dc1f)
Signed-off-by: David Fuhrmann <david.fuhrmann@googlemail.com>

Now it should be usable within own libvlc applications
(cherry picked from commit 729e509f11a90d417a2f28c84b68d3648167142b)
Signed-off-by: David Fuhrmann <david.fuhrmann@googlemail.com>

macosx: improve the handling of broken prefs and make sure that the user is unable to re-break them without using the command-line or a text editor
(cherry picked from commit 4fac18958067cc3506413ae1d690910a1994506b)

The original purpose for this code is fixed somewhere else today.

close #6769
(cherry picked from commit 0f0d47518b683267190256ae0cb5f4c403b306ea)
Signed-off-by: Felix Paul Kühne <fkuehne@videolan.org>

(cherry picked from commit 7ebcfcf446d55a29ea3dfe7783beea27557e83be)
Signed-off-by: Felix Paul Kühne <fkuehne@videolan.org>

(cherry picked from commit 77a137de94267e120320dd1d2981e01d092e3225)

macosx: trust the user that s/he knows what s/he's doing when opening a VIDEO_TS folder (close #6108)

in other words, accept folders which aren't named 'VIDEO_TS'
(cherry picked from commit 0fff26bc5eb641f04b882b6830099b9bd267124b)

This makes no sense. RPM needs the package specification as a separate
file, where the source tarballs are indicated. Chicken-and-egg...

Besides those files are out-of-date.
(cherry picked from commit ee3053e27485efc05856fd3574ab8daa65cfbd61)
Signed-off-by: David Fuhrmann <david.fuhrmann@googlemail.com>

left out for now: cmake, ipkg and most of win32/UAC
(cherry picked from commit 0fac96096c284eeaea307fa04caa6e1e6a6e6bf2)
Signed-off-by: David Fuhrmann <david.fuhrmann@googlemail.com>

Therefore, add a copy to extras to prepare the VLCKit split
(cherry picked from commit 72549b918f834891a40328ddf5fc40a59cbfd653)
Signed-off-by: David Fuhrmann <david.fuhrmann@googlemail.com>

In my opinion, amplifying the audio that gets recorded to a file may do
more harm than good. Indeed, there is no direct feedback to detect and
correct saturation or distortion.
(cherry picked from commit 02a2074e)