vlc 0.9.8a can't change logo

[ktsaou]

Hi,

I think I have found a bug, but before reporting on trac I would like to discuss it here.

In vlc 0.8.6 we could change the logo on the fly by issuing the following commard through rc:

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logo-file filename.png

In vlc 0.9.8a (and 1.0.0-git), according to vlc wiki (http://wiki.videolan.org/How_to_add_logo and the release notes) the format has been changed to:

@name logo-file filename.png

where @name is the name given to the subfilter, which defaults to @logo if no name is given. If @name is given wrong, vlc responds with:

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Unknown destination object.

The problem is that when you issue the command:

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@logo logo-file filename.jpg

the expected result is to change the logo. However vlc responds with:

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Variable doesn't exist or isn't a command.

I have read src/misc/variables.c which seems to give the above error only if VLC_VAR_ISCOMMAND is missing from type. Reading modules/video_filter/logo.c reveals that VLC_VAR_ISCOMMAND is set on 'logo-file' by calling var_CreateGetStringCommand(). So everything seems as it should.

Am I doing something wrong, or this is a bug I should report?

PS: I am using gentoo, so this is a compiled version of vlc-0.9.8a and I have also tried 1.0.0-git with the same results.

[smartstone]

exactly the same problem here!

[smartstone]

how could I report a bug on this issue?