Got vlc_engine working with 1.4.5

Finally got amarok 1.4.5 to recognize vlc-engine plugin and play streams and files on Kubuntu Edgy x86_64.

1. I started with the ver0.2 source files posted by Eric Alber on the amarok mailing list available here and extracted it under amarok/src/engine directory. I did not have to modify MODULE_SYMBOL as I have 'vlc 0.8.6 Janus' running on my system.
   
2. The first step was to add vlc subdirectory to the Makefile.am
if with_vlc
VLC_ENGINE_SUBDIR = vlc
endif
SUBDIRS += $(VLC_ENGINE_SUBDIR)

3. Then I needed to modify/correct the amarok_vlc-engine_plugin.desktop file.
X-KDE-Library=libamarok_vlc-engine_plugin
X-KDE-Amarok-framework-version=28

4. Then modified VlcEngine.cpp to return true for http streams in canDecode() function and implement unpause() virtual function.
if (url.protocol() == "http")
// play http streams
return true;
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void VlcEngine::unpause()
{
pause();
}

5. Then modified configure.in.in file in amarok directory to include VLC into generated ./configure script.
###############################################################################
# BEGIN VLC CHECK
###############################################################################

AC_ARG_WITH(vlc,
AC_HELP_STRING([--with-vlc],[build Amarok with vlc-engine]),
[build_vlc=$withval],
[build_vlc=no]
)

if test "$build_vlc" != "no"; then
AC_PATH_PROG(VLC_CONFIG, vlc-config, no)

if test $VLC_CONFIG = "no"
then
amarok_warning_vlc_notfound=yes
echo "amarok_warning_vlc_notfound: $amarok_warning_vlc_notfound"
build_vlc=no
else
AC_DEFINE(HAVE_VLC, 1, [have VLC])
CFLAGS_VLC=[`$VLC_CONFIG --cflags`]
LIBS_VLC=[`$VLC_CONFIG --libs`]
build_vlc=yes
fi
fi

AM_CONDITIONAL(with_vlc, test x$build_vlc = xyes)
AC_SUBST(CFLAGS_VLC)
AC_SUBST(LIBS_VLC)

###############################################################################
# END VLC CHECK
###############################################################################

6. Then modified configure.in.bot file in amarok directory to tell whether vlc is included/excluded in configure.
if test x$build_vlc = xno; then
echo " = - vlc-engine"
fi
if test x$build_vlc != xno; then
echo " = + vlc-engine"
fi

7. Then run "make -f Makefile.cvs" to generate the proper configure script. Then the usual steps like ./configure, make, make install. (Make sure that ./configure step creates the Makefile in the vlc directory.)
8. Then extract vlc-settings.xml file from here in ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok directory and modified it according to my requirement.
9. Next after running amarok, VLC engine should come up as one of the options in configuration->engine options.
   

Here is my new version of file with all the above modifications - amarok-vlc-engine-0.3.tgz