Using svg text renderer in 1.0.2

[kenig]

I've compiled 1.0.2 with --enabled-svg, everything was compiled successfully but when I set --text-renderer=svg I get the following error:
main error: no text renderer module matched "svg"
j-b, anything I can do or check?

[VLC_help]

You got the SVG .dll file?

[kenig]

libsvg_plugin.dll
Size: 55.1 KB
I've searched the error within the source code and found it is coming from modules\misc\dummy\dummy.c but couldn't find anything wrong there...

[kenig]

Just compiled 1.0.3, libsvg_plugin.dll is now 316 KB but I still get the error:

main debug: looking for text renderer module: 0 candidates
main error: no text renderer module matched "svg"
main debug: looking for text renderer module: 2 candidates
main debug: thread (fontlist builder) created at priority 0 (freetype.c:475)
freetype debug: using fontsize: 2
main debug: using text renderer module "freetype"

[VLC_help]

Does Tools -> Plugins and extensions list the plugin?

[kenig]

I compiled without QT4, is there another way of getting the list?
maybe through the console?

[VLC_help]

I don't know if there is something ready, but

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module_t **p_list = module_list_get( NULL ); module_t *p_module; for( unsigned int i = 0; (p_module = p_list[i] ) != NULL; i++ ) { QStringList qs_item; qs_item << qfu( module_get_name( p_module, true ) ) << qfu( module_get_capability( p_module ) ) << QString::number( module_get_score( p_module ) ); #ifndef DEBUG if( qs_item.at(1).isEmpty() ) continue; #endif QTreeWidgetItem *item = new PluginTreeItem( qs_item ); treePlugins->addTopLevelItem( item ); }

shows how it is done, so you could write something similar to somewhere and print it out.
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=bl ... pp;hb=HEAD

[kenig]

It is not in the list...

[VLC_help]

Then for some reason it doesn't register. Have you tried to debug if VLC checks that file on first startup?

[kenig]

I couldn't find the place where the plugins are being identified, can you please give me a direction?
What is the preferred plugin to render text instead of freetype?

[VLC_help]

I couldn't find the place where the plugins are being identified, can you please give me a direction?

You mean the part that loads them?

What is the preferred plugin to render text instead of freetype?

I think freetype is the preferred one.

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#define TEXTRENDERER_TEXT N_("Text rendering module") #define TEXTRENDERER_LONGTEXT N_( \ "VLC normally uses Freetype for rendering, but this allows you to use svg for instance.")

[kenig]

I'm going over /modules/misc/modules.c but can't get any debug output to the log file, if I'm changing this file, should I compile the whole application or compiling inside 'src' is enough?

[VLC_help]

For modules, it is enough to just compile the modules dir and then do make package-win32-base or similar.