the new logger is unstable when when enabling/disabling hw.

reverting to the old way until it is fixed.

patches/0005-Push-messages-to-Android-stack.patch

@@ -0,0 +1,97 @@
+From 5e1faeb801e3eec6e2876021202289a5a149e2a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb@videolan.org>
+Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 00:20:40 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH 3/7] Push messages to Android stack
+
+Signed-off-by: Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb@videolan.org>
+---
+ configure.ac        |    1 +
+ src/misc/messages.c |    7 +++++++
+ src/posix/thread.c  |   16 ++++++++++++----
+ 3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
+index e61f372..90de262 100644
+--- a/configure.ac
++++ b/configure.ac
+@@ -471,6 +471,7 @@ fi
+ 
+ if test "${HAVE_ANDROID}" = "1"; then
+     AC_REPLACE_FUNCS([pthread_cancel])
++    VLC_ADD_LIBS([libvlccore],[-llog])
+ fi
+ 
+ dnl
+diff --git a/src/misc/messages.c b/src/misc/messages.c
+index 61080c0..f92d4c0 100644
+--- a/src/misc/messages.c
++++ b/src/misc/messages.c
+@@ -224,10 +224,17 @@ void vlc_vaLog (vlc_object_t *obj, int type, const char *module,
+     va_list ap;
+ 
+     va_copy (ap, args);
++#ifdef __ANDROID__
++#include <android/log.h>
++    android_LogPriority prioritytype[4] = {ANDROID_LOG_INFO, ANDROID_LOG_ERROR,
++                                           ANDROID_LOG_WARN, ANDROID_LOG_DEBUG };
++    __android_log_vprint(prioritytype[type], "vlc", format, ap);
++#else
+     if (priv->b_color)
+         PrintColorMsg (&priv->i_verbose, type, &msg, format, ap);
+     else
+         PrintMsg (&priv->i_verbose, type, &msg, format, ap);
++#endif
+     va_end (ap);
+ 
+     vlc_rwlock_rdlock (&msg_lock);
+diff --git a/src/posix/thread.c b/src/posix/thread.c
+index 9d9c771..d8a442b 100644
+--- a/src/posix/thread.c
++++ b/src/posix/thread.c
+@@ -136,6 +136,14 @@ static struct timespec mtime_to_ts (mtime_t date)
+     return ts;
+ }
+ 
++#if defined(__ANDROID__) && !defined(NDEBUG)
++# include <android/log.h>
++# define LOG_TAG "VLC/pthread"
++# define FATAL(...) __android_log_print(ANDROID_LOG_ERROR,LOG_TAG,__VA_ARGS__)
++#else
++# define FATAL(...) fprintf(stderr, __VA_ARGS__)
++#endif
++
+ /**
+  * Print a backtrace to the standard error for debugging purpose.
+  */
+@@ -176,8 +184,8 @@ vlc_thread_fatal (const char *action, int error,
+                   const char *function, const char *file, unsigned line)
+ {
+     int canc = vlc_savecancel ();
+-    fprintf (stderr, "LibVLC fatal error %s (%d) in thread %lu ",
+-             action, error, vlc_threadid ());
++    FATAL ("LibVLC fatal error %s (%d) in thread %lu ",
++           action, error, vlc_threadid ());
+     vlc_trace (function, file, line);
+ 
+     /* Sometimes strerror_r() crashes too, so make sure we print an error
+@@ -185,7 +193,7 @@ vlc_thread_fatal (const char *action, int error,
+ #ifdef __GLIBC__
+     /* Avoid the strerror_r() prototype brain damage in glibc */
+     errno = error;
+-    fprintf (stderr, " Error message: %m\n");
++    FATAL (" Error message: %m\n");
+ #else
+     char buf[1000];
+     const char *msg;
+@@ -202,7 +210,7 @@ vlc_thread_fatal (const char *action, int error,
+             msg = "unknown (invalid error number)";
+             break;
+     }
+-    fprintf (stderr, " Error message: %s\n", msg);
++    FATAL (" Error message: %s\n", msg);
+ #endif
+     fflush (stderr);
+ 
+-- 
+1.7.5.4
+

vlc-android/jni/libvlcjni.c

@@ -192,8 +192,8 @@ void Java_org_videolan_vlc_android_LibVLC_nativeInit(JNIEnv *env, jobject thiz,
         "-vv",
         "--no-plugins-cache",
         "--no-drop-late-frames",
-        "--control", "logger",
-        "--logmode", "android",
+//        "--control", "logger",
+//        "--logmode", "android",
 
         /* Leave room for iomx options (4 entries exactly) */
         NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL,