We want compilation to fail if this is missing.

This reverts commit 884eaa35.

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...