It vastly improves CPU usage but it does not fix the underlaying problem
of using sleep instead of a signal.

manually cherry-picked by jb@videolan.org

Manually chery-picked by jb@videolan.org

Manually Cherry-picked by Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb@videolan.org>

Cherry-picked manually by jb@videolan.org

(cherry picked from commit cd2f1447)
Signed-off-by: Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb@videolan.org>

(cherry picked from commit dfd651fefb759d4bea52266901d3d895e7fcaafc)

Patch inspired by  Alexey Gladkov
Signed-off-by: Jean-Paul Saman <jpsaman@videolan.org>
(cherry picked from commit fdfe57fa1319f6704859bd2502ecce26795c9e73)

Signed off: Jean-Paul Saman <jpsaman@videolan.org>
Signed-off-by: Jean-Paul Saman <jpsaman@videolan.org>

This will hopefully help avoid some of the reports where people fail to notice that there is an expand triangle next to what they clicked on.
(cherry picked from commit dfd5ae96)
Signed-off-by: Derk-Jan Hartman <hartman@videolan.org>

manual backport

This only happen in 64bit mode.

backport of f7692e67

This closes #1395
(cherry picked from commit ad16fc37)
Signed-off-by: Derk-Jan Hartman <hartman@videolan.org>

Ok, this isn't making it much nicer, and this code definetly needs a more careful rewrite, but this is patchwork for the 1.0-bugfix release and at least it will do for now.

- reset's the values in any loaded views after reset of the config is called
- does not reset the module selector atm. might follow later on.
(cherry picked from commit d66f3c87)
Signed-off-by: Derk-Jan Hartman <hartman@videolan.org>

(cherry picked from commit 4de9a2e2)

(cherry picked from commit 81a05711)

Now we have:
cmd-G : to open the panel to grab from webcam/screen/eyetv
cmd-R : to reveal in Finder, the same as iTunes uses
cmd-shift-R : to start/stop VLC record

backport of [811af572]

It should fix lost some picture errors that were critical with dvd menus.
It also seems to fix #2803 but I don't really understand why.
(cherry picked from commit ed7d6cbf)
Signed-off-by: Derk-Jan Hartman <hartman@videolan.org>

(cherry picked from commit 641da394)
Signed-off-by: Derk-Jan Hartman <hartman@videolan.org>