to avoid crashes in the messaging system (global data has no libvlc pointer)
- Rename ROOT to GLOBAL to avoid confusion (the root is LIBVLC, not GLOBAL)

- Remove some cruft

(And go fix your libc if this does not work for you.)

   leak in the TS mux which is triggered when the input PCR packets
   disappear from the stream without disappearing from the PMT (happens
   on the satellite when the video suddenly gets scrambled). Insert it in
   the sout pipeline : --sout="#autodel:std{...}".

retry on failure to connect to rc-unix socket. Patch by Greg Farrell (greg  a  lincor.com), submitted by Dermot McGahon (dermot  a  dspsrv.com)

(could be improved, but basically works)

   and DTS for field pictures.

   and low delay streams.

   --sout-ts-crypt-video options.