Fix the handling of string variable - store them as UTF-8 into the config variables, also convert the StringList values to an UTF8 string before putting them into a QVariant - which seems not to work if created from a "char *" - because later converterd QVariant->toString() isn't UTF8 like expected.
waveout.c forgott to convert string to UTF8 before storing in choice list

qt4-uic (the Qt user interface compiler) and rcc (the Qt resource compiler)
create .cpp and .h files that we don't want to track. Adding them to
.gitignore.

Add a --disable-wince option so that we can disable this (probably broken)
plugin's build when mingwce is detected. Also, add -lmmtimer to the libvlc
link flags because this is where timeGetTime() lies.

Made the Doxygen headers slightly clearer when directly read from the
header file, fixed grammar and spelling here and there, added some
missing \param and \return tags (though a lot remains to be done).

The spin_lock wrappers do not use the return value of the functions they
wrap, resulting in dozens of compiler warnings because they are inline
functions. There is no elegant solution to this, I hope using (void)val;
is the least shocking alternative.

set qpmin/qpmax even without qp set.
more constant on x264 parameters handling.

Fix "Remove security-policy UI" [2db278fa] commit that made overlapping.

(Don't expect this to work yet though)

protocol, so don't try to use atoi() there.

LoadLibrary can either point to LoadLibraryA or LoadLibraryW depending
on the system and build options, so let's use LoadLibrary everywhere
for consistency. Also, wrap static argument strings with _T() so that
they're automatically in the right format.

Thanks to Alin Rad Pop, Secunia Research.
Ported from libxine.

In some cases (eg. when building binary packages) one only needs libvlc
and libvlc-control and does not wish to build or install VLC binaries.
This --disable-vlc flag saves us from manually removing the unwanted
binaries after "make install".

auhal: Fix kAudioDevicePropertyDeviceIsAlive check (vlc_bool_t size has changed and doesn't match anymore the needed param size for kAudioDevicePropertyDeviceIsAlive).

Revert "Fix compilation, by "fixing" VLC_PUBLIC_API." as the compilation breakage on Qt4 was obviously a typo in 461e426f.

This reverts commit 82d39c38.

Revert "VLC_PUBLIC_API needs extern "C" on windows/c++ too."

This reverts commit 4af174fc.

Revert "Mark VLC_PUBLIC_API as extern "C" when using C++."

This reverts commit 879e3eb2.

Don't publish the default object destructor. (VLC_PUBLIC_API is broken)

control/media_instance.c: Fix libvlc_media_instance_new_from_input_thread() now that input refcounting is fixed.

Patch contributed by dkl0