(cherry picked from commit b7e41633)

(cherry picked from commit 9a5e5236)

(cherry picked from commit d6c0f242)

The only user is LUA, inlined there. The return value seems suspicious
by the way.
(cherry picked from commit 1014a2aa)

(cherry picked from commit be0af925)

(cherry picked from commit 475d7593)

(cherry picked from commit daf44288)

(cherry picked from commit b3bf199a)

(cherry picked from commit 674c2927)

(cherry picked from commit ebc680ce)

(cherry picked from commit 48593ea3)

(cherry picked from commit dc8228bb)

Fix make dist

Seems to work but needs more testing

(cherry picked from commit 63b5b2e2)

by Gabor Kelemen.
100% translated

(cherry picked from commit 72efa988)

Print the module name in help output (else the user has no way to link the vlc --list output to that of the vlc <insert a help command here> output other than by trying all the modules in --list with vlc -p <module name>)
(cherry picked from commit bd69812b)

Fix mistake in 92290c9d that allowed modules with no basic options (i.e. != advanced) to be shown in vlc -p <something> output with --no-advanced.
(cherry picked from commit c4963958)

Moved the order around a bit so that more common formats are earlier in the array.