All: My shot at improving subtitle rendering in vlc. Now each vout uses a "text renderer" module to render text on the video when needed. I decieded to make this a module type, because other api's (win32 and macosx) is supposed to do better than freetype under some circumstances.

include/video_output.h: added some members needed by text renderer modules
src/video_output/video_output.c: load and unload text renderer module when needed
src/video_output/video_text.c: implemented some functions to show text on the video
include/osd.h: exported the functions to show text
modules/misc/Modules.am, module/misc/freetype.c: new text renderer module, largly based on the old osdtext module.
modules/video_filter/Modules.am, modules/video_filter/osd_text.c: removed the osdtext module
configure.ac: changes "osdtext" to "freetype" some places
modules/codec/spudec/*: when iconv is available, use it to convert textual subtitles from the encoding given by --sub-encoding to utf8. Use new code to render subtitles
modules/control/lirc/lirc.c: use new code to give feedback on buttons pressed. untested.
modules/demux/util/sub.c: remove all traces of the ugly old osdtext module
modules/misc/dummy/*: added a "text renderer" submodule in the dummy module
src/misc/modules.c: included osd.h as it seems to be needed to export symbols


final notes: you need to give a proper value to --freetype-font. This should be the path to a font file freetype2 can handle (almost any format afaik) with a unicode translation table in it. Windows ttf files will do. In linux at least openoffice distributes some fonts that work. I think macosx and beos also has useable fonts.

         includes in the .h files, since they are parsed out of context by
	 doxygen
Doxyfile: misc fixes, use ./toolbox --add-include as filter for sources.
include/vlc_common.h: doxygenized VLC_COMMON_MEMBERS

With these changes, and a slightly patched version of doxygen (which you can
get here: http://www.idi.ntnu.no/~sigmunau/doxygen-vlcpatched.tgz ) you should
be able to get some useful documentation out of the vlc sources.

  and our dear users report it as a bug.

* modules/gui/skins/*: removed unused GTK2_SKINS code.

* modules/stream_out/transcode.c: implemented some very basic channels downmixing. Was necessary to be able to transcode a52 > stereo to mpga.

  than A/52, so disabled it for the moment (we should actually check for
  the presence of a descriptor).

  would progressively empty on some DVDs.

* modules/gui/wxwindows/*: added a "simple open" entry to the "File" menu of the interface and playlist. That entry just opens a wxFileDialog().

* modules/gui/wxwindows/streamout.cpp, wxwindows.h: added an audio channels combobox for transcoding.
* NEWS: update in preparation for 0.6.1.

* modules/audio_output/directx.c: 5.1 audio output now works on sblive/audigy as well :)
* modules/audio_output/waveout.c: fixed the waveOut plugin so works on NT4 as well... that complicates the plugin a bit more than I would have wanted, but hey.
* modules/gui/wxwindows/messages.cpp: the verbose checkbox is set to the value of the --verbose config option.

 * browse: example.

         * another useless feature: can browse local files (for sout)

    Disable the gtk2/gnome2 interfaces as they are currently unuseable and this option was confusing users more than anything else.
    Enabled the mp4 muxer (Although it doesn't yet produce streams compatible with quicktime).

* modules/control/http.c: win32 fixes.

* modules/audio_output/alsa.c: enabled 4 and 5.1 channels modes (although stereo stays the default).

 There is no more hardcoded html page. The interface recursively parse a
directory, exporting all  files. All .htm/.html are  parsed, and special
macro are  used. I will commit  somes samples pages in  share/http and I
hope documentations.

 TODO: - (re)implement access control in httpd (but in a useable way).
       - clean login/password management. (for now .access protects
       a whole directory).
       - doc ;)

* httpd: removed hard-coded user/pass for admin page.
   (now: --http-admin-pass & --http-admin-user )

    filename in a package.

* added matroska, dvb and pvr USE vars.
* enabled support for flac.
* removed libdv support since it's deprecated
* enabled freetype support if USE=truetype
* enabled satellite support if USE=dvb
* added local USE variable pvr to compile with pvr support
* added local USE variable matroska to compile with experimental matroska
  support/ebuilds. See also http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=63722&highlight=matroska.

* modules/demux/ogg.c: latest change for web radios support did affect the quality of normal
ogg files. Make the check a bit more strict.

* modules/gui/wxwindows/interface.cpp: resume after pause was broken recently.
* src/audio_output/output.c: reverted a recent change that was screwing up the proper scheduling of audio samples after a starvation. That should improve the heavy resampling we currently have after a pause.
* modules/audio_output/alsa.c: improvements and fixes to the alsa audio output.

  next title to next playlistitem. The old code for this was buggy. This
  should work better. Especially for CDDA's, since we previously didn't support
  titles.

    instead.

    + Removed a useless use of cut.
    + Do not fail in the "clean" rule if no targets were built.
  * Makefile.am:
    + Propagate $(srcdir) to toolbox.
  * toolbox:
    + Do not include .moc files in POTFILES.in.
    + Fixed the generation of MSVC project files (untested).