Close #6813
(cherry picked from commit 88a69655)
Signed-off-by: Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb@videolan.org>

Pointed-By: Clément Lecigne
(cherry picked from commit 08879e4e)
Signed-off-by: Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb@videolan.org>

(cherry picked from commit 0ef62578)
Signed-off-by: Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb@videolan.org>

an option to switch the modes is in the works
(cherry picked from commit 81162e72)

This avoids leaking the Unix socket to child processes.
(cherry picked from commit cb11b784)

(cherry picked from commit 619b980e)

(cherry picked from commit 6acd0f4c)
Signed-off-by: Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb@videolan.org>

This is just a partial fix.
Fixes #6148
(cherry picked from commit 114a88bc)
Signed-off-by: Pierre Ynard <linkfanel@yahoo.fr>

(cherry picked from commit 760668e7)

(cherry picked from commit 52197b01)

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mostly useless and mostly superseded by the coloured variant,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 5a772cbf)

(cherry picked from commit 9984e74d)

This is now the same as was already implemented in the
set_relative_playlist_position_and_play() method.
(cherry picked from commit c64c794e)
Signed-off-by: Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb@videolan.org>

(cherry picked from commit deb8ae92)
Signed-off-by: David Fuhrmann <david.fuhrmann@googlemail.com>

(cherry picked from commit da65be43)
Signed-off-by: David Fuhrmann <david.fuhrmann@googlemail.com>

(cherry picked from commit 3b3a8924)
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 a2347e57)
Signed-off-by: David Fuhrmann <david.fuhrmann@googlemail.com>

(cherry picked from commit 2aa0ad9c)
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 729e509f)
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 4fac1895)

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

close #6769
(cherry picked from commit 0f0d4751)
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 02a2074e054a237876a2c980621cbc0969dd72a4)

(cherry picked from commit 2d2cde172f10a5290956a115b35cf693a945e559)
Signed-off-by: David Fuhrmann <david.fuhrmann@googlemail.com>

(cherry picked from commit 9be0932d795076e8b33cfabb4a2d23042826025d)

The proper reciprocal formula to that of VLC to PA conversion must be
used. Otherwise, we get an inconsistent value in the "volume" variable.
(cherry picked from commit a89517ca4be10847d17db539ed6acf5302fb65dd)