Lua playlist scripts in preferences folder aren't detected

[RedDwarf69]

http://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation: ... troduction says:

You can add your own Lua playlist scripts in this directory or in your VLC's preferences folder "lua/playlist" subdirectory.

If I put my script in /usr/share/vlc/lua/playlist/ I get:

$ vlc -vv --no-color file://imagenio.html 2>&1 | grep 'Lua playlist script'
[00000431] lua demux debug: Trying Lua playlist script /usr/share/vlc/lua/playlist/appletrailers.lua
[00000431] lua demux debug: Trying Lua playlist script /usr/share/vlc/lua/playlist/break.lua
[00000431] lua demux debug: Trying Lua playlist script /usr/share/vlc/lua/playlist/dailymotion.lua
[00000431] lua demux debug: Trying Lua playlist script /usr/share/vlc/lua/playlist/france2.lua
[00000431] lua demux debug: Trying Lua playlist script /usr/share/vlc/lua/playlist/googlevideo.lua
[00000431] lua demux debug: Trying Lua playlist script /usr/share/vlc/lua/playlist/imagenio.lua
[00000431] lua demux debug: Lua playlist script /usr/share/vlc/lua/playlist/imagenio.lua's probe() function was successful

But if i remove it from /usr/share/vlc/lua/playlist/ and copy it to $HOME/.config/vlc $HOME/.config/vlc/lua or $HOME/.config/vlc/lua/playlist what I get is:

$ vlc -vv --no-color file://imagenio.html 2>&1 | grep 'Lua playlist script'
[00000431] lua demux debug: Trying Lua playlist script /usr/share/vlc/lua/playlist/appletrailers.lua
[00000431] lua demux debug: Trying Lua playlist script /usr/share/vlc/lua/playlist/break.lua
[00000431] lua demux debug: Trying Lua playlist script /usr/share/vlc/lua/playlist/dailymotion.lua
[00000431] lua demux debug: Trying Lua playlist script /usr/share/vlc/lua/playlist/france2.lua
[00000431] lua demux debug: Trying Lua playlist script /usr/share/vlc/lua/playlist/googlevideo.lua
[00000431] lua demux debug: Trying Lua playlist script /usr/share/vlc/lua/playlist/joox.lua
[00000431] lua demux debug: Trying Lua playlist script /usr/share/vlc/lua/playlist/lelombrik.lua
[00000431] lua demux debug: Trying Lua playlist script /usr/share/vlc/lua/playlist/megavideo.lua
[00000431] lua demux debug: Trying Lua playlist script /usr/share/vlc/lua/playlist/metacafe.lua
[00000431] lua demux debug: Trying Lua playlist script /usr/share/vlc/lua/playlist/youtube.lua
[00000431] lua demux debug: Trying Lua playlist script /usr/share/vlc/lua/playlist/youtube_homepage.lua

I'm using vlc-0.9.1-0.pm.2@x86-64 from http://packman.links2linux.org/ on openSUSE 11.0.
It's a bug, a documentation error or I missunderstood something?

[dionoea]

It looks like a bug. I'll investigate. Thanks for the report.

[dionoea]

Ok, so I installed a git master VLC on my computer (as far as I know the lua stuff hasn't changed since we tagged 0.9.1) and it worked fine.

For your info:

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22:58 antoine@macbook ~/.local/share/vlc/lua/playlist% cat test.lua function probe() vlc.msg.err( "It's me!" ) return false end

And when running VLC:

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[00000410] lua demux debug: Trying Lua scripts in /home/antoine/.local/share/vlc/lua/playlist [00000410] lua demux debug: Trying Lua playlist script /home/antoine/.local/share/vlc/lua/playlist/test.lua [00000410] lua demux error: It's me! [00000410] lua demux debug: Trying Lua scripts in /home/antoine/local/share/vlc/lua/playlist [00000410] lua demux debug: Trying Lua playlist script /home/antoine/local/share/vlc/lua/playlist/appletrailers.lua [00000410] lua demux debug: Trying Lua playlist script /home/antoine/local/share/vlc/lua/playlist/break.lua [00000410] lua demux debug: Trying Lua playlist script /home/antoine/local/share/vlc/lua/playlist/dailymotion.lua [00000410] lua demux debug: Trying Lua playlist script /home/antoine/local/share/vlc/lua/playlist/france2.lua [00000410] lua demux debug: Trying Lua playlist script /home/antoine/local/share/vlc/lua/playlist/googlevideo.lua [00000410] lua demux debug: Trying Lua playlist script /home/antoine/local/share/vlc/lua/playlist/joox.lua [00000410] lua demux debug: Trying Lua playlist script /home/antoine/local/share/vlc/lua/playlist/lelombrik.lua [00000410] lua demux debug: Trying Lua playlist script /home/antoine/local/share/vlc/lua/playlist/megavideo.lua [00000410] lua demux debug: Trying Lua playlist script /home/antoine/local/share/vlc/lua/playlist/metacafe.lua [00000410] lua demux debug: Trying Lua playlist script /home/antoine/local/share/vlc/lua/playlist/youtube.lua [00000410] lua demux debug: Trying Lua playlist script /home/antoine/local/share/vlc/lua/playlist/youtube_homepage.lua

[dionoea]

Ah ok, I understand the issue. It's not the config folder under linux (that changed when I edited VLC to comply with the XDG Base Directory Specification 0.6). I changed the documentation accordingly. Tell me if it works better now.
Cheers,

[RedDwarf69]

Tell me if it works better now.

Yes, now it detects it correctly.

Thanks.