Ref #1998
(cherry picked from commit bba48b20a4319fdc07b060d78ab02c6bc629a4e8)

(cherry picked from commit f9c932a8eea00c0bf7da5b3772b76d6397f7201b)
Signed-off-by: Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb@videolan.org>

Signed-off-by: Derk-Jan Hartman <hartman@videolan.org>

Yep, they are funny guys.

Signed-off-by: Rémi Denis-Courmont <rdenis@simphalempin.com>

Signed-off-by: Rémi Denis-Courmont <rdenis@simphalempin.com>

Signed-off-by: Rémi Denis-Courmont <rdenis@simphalempin.com>

(As request by http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=40558)

Thanks courmisch for noticing this.
It still uses the old, and soon to be deprecated I imagine, vlc_object_wait API, but well, we cannot go faster than the music, can we?

Thanks courmisch for noticing this.
It still uses the old, and soon to be deprecated I imagine, vlc_object_wait API, but well, we cannot go faster than the music, can we?

It only makes sense if the thread actually initializes something.

if allowed, launch a timeout keep-a-live thread

Close #1998.
(cherry picked from commit fd3426910f6ffa1db76659974ff54ba24363217a)
(cherry picked from commit 56c38ae8d2f4a31aa2145997a7bb603a50a11811)
Signed-off-by: Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb@videolan.org>

(cherry picked from commit 1d4f7191)
Signed-off-by: Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb@videolan.org>