macosx: fixed corner case, which could lead to an empty main window in case the video output closes prematurely
(cherry picked from commit 5c165066e19c1935de7abd8142deab531c0265ac)

(cherry picked from commit cbdadbfb0e9f162f1a4151fcb056df56c9e67015)

(cherry picked from commit 890ea0765894d32df2604f0d6d9b9e66eb2f8a37)

Support for the NSDistributedNotificationCenter based methods
was removed in Growl 1.3.
Signed-off-by: Felix Paul Kühne <fkuehne@videolan.org>
(cherry picked from commit 999170bd706b7d56d50a40a032522be7a379746b)

Conflicts:

	modules/notify/growl.m

Time can be greater than duration, when you scroll right to much.
Furthermore, this commit moves the duplicated code into a own method.
(cherry picked from commit cb98770d)
Signed-off-by: Felix Paul Kühne <fkuehne@videolan.org>

This bug is already fixed in VLC 2.1, but the fix is probably too
invasive to be backported.

It can fail in rare circumstances such as context failures (in other
words, PulseAudio daemon crash or exit).
(cherry picked from commit 5a0c690f)

fpathconf (_PC_NAME_MAX) set errno to EBADF. This leads vlc_loaddir() to
misinterpret the result of vlc_readdir() if there are no more files.
Signed-off-by: Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi@remlab.net>

Close #6716
Signed-off-by: Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb@videolan.org>
(cherry picked from commit 83a9c844)
Signed-off-by: Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb@videolan.org>

(cherry picked from commit 1d8fd45b)
Signed-off-by: Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb@videolan.org>

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 391bb327)
(cherry picked from commit 06ceac25)
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 1fc1506a)
Signed-off-by: Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb@videolan.org>

Close #5898
Signed-off-by: Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb@videolan.org>
(cherry picked from commit 6e348973)
Signed-off-by: Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb@videolan.org>

Close #6812
(cherry picked from commit 16c1b291)
Signed-off-by: Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb@videolan.org>

Close #6813
(cherry picked from commit 88a69655)
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 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 114a88bc426ee433e0d060c5d74caaaf10a7fab1)
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 3d649ef6)
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>