backported: [15963](partial),[15973],[15974],[15975],[15977],[15978],[15981],[15982],[15983](edited),[15984],[15988],[16003],[16006],[16008]-[16011],[16018],[16019],[16021],[16023],[16025],[16026]

skipped: pid writing, qtl, motion, restart flag, RTSP rewind/ffw

* backported: [15891]-[15893],[15895],[15908],[15910],[15911],[15914],[15922],[15924],[15928],[15929],[15935],[15939],[15942],[15952],[15953],[15960]-[15962],

skipped: bindings, sfilter, xspf, new stats, probe and ASX.

* backported: [15803]-[15815],[15817],[15819],[15821],[15822],[15824],[15826],[15829],[15831],[15832],[15834],[15836]-[15838],[15841],[15844],[15846],[15848]-[15853],[15859],[15861]-[15867],[15869]-[15871],[15874],[15878]-[15880],[15883],[15884]

* skipped java bindings, new cdda (too many playlist conflicts)

backport: [15701],[15702],[15704],[15705],[15707]-[15711],[15733],[15734],[15736],[15741],[15744],[15745],[15753]-[15757],[15762],[15763],[15767],[15774]-[15778],[15781]-[15783],[15785]-[15787],[15790],[15791]

skipped: RTE code and BeOS fixes (if someone could look at [15735] and commit that which does not concern the new playlist, i would be thankful.) 

* backported: [15596]-[15603],[15605]-[15608],[15611],[15615],[15616],[15626]-[15628], [15631],[15636],[15637],[15639],[15643],[15647]-[15651],[15654],[15658],[15662],[15668],[15669],[15673]-[15675],[15678],[15680]-[15682],[15684],[15689]-[15700]
as well as the intf.m part of [15638]

The interaction framework updates and playlist changes were left out

* backported: [15445],[15449],[15451],[15457],[15477],[15490],[15560],[15563],[15564]-[15568],[15571]-[15585],[15587],[15588],[15591]-[15593]

  On to the post 0.8.5 changes

* backported: [15327]-[15330],[15332],[15334],[15341],vlc.win32.nsi.in[trunk],[15345]-[15348],[15371],[15379],[15392]-[15395],[15403]-[15405],[15412]-[15414],[15419],[15422],[15424],[15425],[15428],[15429],[15432]-[15434],[15436]-[15441].

[15279],[15289],[15292],[15300]

 * specifically left out sfilters panel in OSX intf.
 * this is the first batch, I don't want to frell my tree and have to start from scratch AGAIN :D

- libiconv: removed CPPFLAGS="-D"-Dssize_t=long" needed for building on FC 5
- live555 : add include path -I${PREFIX}/include for iconv.h

[15538]  build fix
[15546]  shoutcast alias
[15531]  remove debug
[15522]  libtool fix
[15524]  linking fix
[15519]  configure fix

Backport win9x file opening fixes ( [15501], [15506], [15509], [15510], [15511], [15512] and [15518])

The number of crash reports on Linux make it obvious that 0.8.5 and 0.8.4 are not binary-compatibile, so we should definitely change the entry point name