This will not override a previous hint_distro.

contribs: Use the gcc toolchain installed in /usr/bin instead of /Developer because the latter is no reliable path as it can be installed anywhere

Fix #4305

Signed-off-by: Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb@videolan.org>

Start playback right after successfull downloading of the first segment. Switch to a higher bandwidth
later on. By the time peeking and first segment have been played the next segment is available.

This fixes this kind of scenario: you want to save a video from your
favorite video website. So you open the VLC GUI, you copy/paste the URL
into the convert dialog and you click on okay. The corresponding
playlist lua script processes the URL and a new item is added into the
playlist, but the :sout option is lost in the process, and you start
watching a video that is never saved.

Skins: don't use GetProcAddress for TransparentBlt, AlphaBlend and SetLayeredWindowAttributes they're available since win2k
Signed-off-by: Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb@videolan.org>

Signed-off-by: Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb@videolan.org>

Signed-off-by: Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb@videolan.org>

Media library features sql_monitor - directory scanner ml_watch - playlist watcher item_list - items being watched by ml_watch media_pool - list of active media in vlc

It has become so slow in 1.2.0, especially on Win32, that this isn't
funny.
Maybe the new rands() are slower (4d6247fd)
Ref #4290

The code is quite ugly and the comments in IconvText() where wrongs...

Sorry for the noise, I won't touch it anymore...

do copy the in picture to out picture like all other video filters also if it is not needed for the atmo purpose just to get it working again.