(cherry picked from commit 6a85f39b)
Signed-off-by: Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb@videolan.org>

In fact Qt uses always / as a separator, so introduce a function named toNativeSeparator (inspired from QDir) to fix this on Win$uck$

(cherry picked from commit 90d15c42)

Remove C musicbrainz modules, use the new XML musicbrainz API.
This removes VLC's dependency on libmusicbrainz. Consider backporting
this commit and the previous one to 0.9-bugfix to get musicbrainz
support on windows.
(cherry picked from commit 950caf17)

Add misc.mwait(), var.create() and strings.encode_uri_component()
functions to VLC's Lua API.

Signed-off-by: Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb@videolan.org>
(cherry picked from commit 432e45db)
Signed-off-by: Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb@videolan.org>

It fixes aspect ratio of saved picture (and internal ones).
It fixes aspect ratio of displayed PIP (with and without overlay).
It factorizes a bit the code.
It adds a few checks on malloc.
(cherry picked from commit 76f2181d)

(cherry picked from commit 241da007)

(cherry picked from commit 5d0c2971)

This should fix WMA decoding, lets hope not too many ffmpeg bugs are present in this revision. :/

(cherry picked from commit 07262663)

(cherry picked from commit 5c139f1f)

(cherry picked from commit 52cf2e39)

(cherry picked from commit 8a0180f5)

(cherry picked from commit d46ea102)

Introduce release/debug scripts for mingw configure.
(cherry picked from commit 84ffa0d4)
Signed-off-by: Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb@videolan.org>

Ref #1998

Signed-off-by: Derk-Jan Hartman <hartman@videolan.org>
(cherry picked from commit c3637a5e)

(cherry picked from commit a27681ab)

if allowed, launch a timeout keep-a-live thread
(cherry picked from commit 169ecd7a)

(cherry picked from commit 93f09fb2)

(cherry picked from commit fb698859)

(cherry picked from commit 869a67fa)

(cherry picked from commit 4363f514)

(cherry picked from commit dab65897)

See page 66 of ETSI EN 300 468
(cherry picked from commit a4112126)

Be carefull, it adds a new translated strings.
(cherry picked from commit 664fb723)

This way the TS demux can create multiple tracks that will take you straight to the subtitles, program listings etc.
(cherry picked from commit 344612b3)

(cherry picked from commit 0ec4e51a)

This fixes a few "deadlocks" with input waiting for playlist, while
playlist is waiting for input event.

It workarounds a picture leak in libmpeg2/ffmpeg decoder, fixing the menu for
a few DVDs.