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.

Parental advisory: explicit kludge.

This reverts commit c46366ce.

HTTP Live Streams are number from 0 in vlc_array_t. The condition in Download()
excluded 0 as valid stream. The first element in the array is at index 0, so consider
this to be valid.
(cherry picked from commit 7acbd2448c289cf28a80cfc0dd2ece21860aa6e9)

If block_Realloc() fails in the function AccessDownload() then resolving
segment->data->i_buffer results in a segmentation error. Instead of continuing
when block_Realloc() has failed, just cleanup and leave the function.

This reverts commit 0861691f.

This should not be possible, probably the backtraces were corrupted.

This is extra-precaution, but it cannot do harm

VLC doesn't use foreign M4 macros anymore

This reverts commit ae14df5a.

[d85d6537] explains why it is needed

This introduce a circular dependency. The correct way (which what Rafael is doing) is to explicitely set the dependencies in the .package to automake, libtool...

This fix unbreaks those who don't build autoconf.

Note, I have absolutely no idea why this is needed. This doesn't feel right anyhow.

It could happen when the demuxer was forced.

It was called 2 times.