Unfortunately, this does not really solve the problem as vlc_object_destroy can still return without actually deleting the object in case of a deadlock.
One could argue the deadlock is the problem rather than vlc_object_destroy implementation.

This is basically a hack for systems lacking proper locale setting

And why the heck was this undone in the first place??

Patch by Hannes Domani

Contribs - FLAC: update to v1.2.1. Mingw32 patch is unneeded (upstream merge). A few bugs and crash are fixed, new support for all RIFF/AIFF metadata, including Broadcast Wave Format (BWF).

Contribs: Theora moves from alpha7 to alpha8. New encoder, one patch has gone upstream, and examples can be disabled. A lot of new features are available in the encoder. Postprocessing, anyone ?
Ref  #1303

Add AVUI fourCC, fix the problem with http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/V-codecs/AVUI/avid_meridien_uncompressed.mov.gz

Ideally, the command line would be parsed earlier.

LibVLC need to be prepared for it to be missing anyway.

This makes TLS server initialization a lot faster (especially under valgrind)

directories as world-writable - fixes #1306

These are are quite slow to compute, so it could be used to speed up start up
once reading them from the cache is also implemented.

Hmm, there is a security problem in this commit (cache file is world-readable).

Someone should fix this properly instead.

as it needs some specific processing in the decoder.
Patch from William Hawkins

Patch by Williams Hawkins