Setting marquee params in libvlc_new

[hanky]

I want to display some text over the video.
First I try to do it using the VLC player. As this manual says, I launch the player this way:

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vlc --sub-filter=marq --marq-marquee="Obvious Watermark" --marq-position=0 --marq-size=50 somevideo.avi

In this case everything works fine.

Then I try to do the same in my app which uses libVLC library. I initialize the VLC instance:

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const char* const argv[] = {"--no-plugins-cache", "--sub-filter=marq", "--marq-marquee=\"Obvious Watermark\"", "--marq-position=0", "--marq-size=50"}; int argc = sizeof(args) / sizeof(args[0]); vlcObject = libvlc_new(argc, argv));

Then I launch my player and get no text.

What am I doing wrong?

I'm using libVLC 2.1.4 on Centos 6.5.