[vlc-devel] Strange problem. Changing command line params in vlc.c does not make a difference

[Peter Tap]

Folks,

Environment: Ubuntu 10.x. VLC source 2.0.1


I have created a module that shows special watermark when a movie is played. 


The following command works as expected:


$ ./vlc --sub-source="mywatermark"  myfile.mp4

The watermark module gets loaded appropriately and the watermark is displayed on screen.


For our purpose, it is mandatory that this module be loaded. As a user may bypass this command line parameter, I customized vlc-source/bin/vlc.c for our needs. In the first line of main(), I replace original argc and argv with my own argc and argv. The new argument list contains my sub-source parameter.

int main( int i_argc, const char *ppsz_argv[] )
{
    ppsz_argv = GetCmdArguments(i_argc, ppsz_argv, &i_argc);

    for(int i=0;i<i_argc;i++) {
      printf("Arg: %s\n", ppsz_argv[i]);
    }


The print line displays the parameters and they are exactly as I desire, including my "sub-source" parameter. However, when done this way, my filter never gets created.

There are other hard-coded parameters that seem to work except "sub-source" parameter type.


This sounds silly. I don't understand why the parameter works when passed from command line but not when overridden within the main function. 


The only thing I could think of is that VLC is obtaining some parameters from the process table.


I am wondering if anyone has any insight on what could be happening here.

Regards,
Peter
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