vlc does not start without the full path (commandline WinXP)

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vlc does not start without the full path (commandline WinXP)

Postby winspool » 18 Feb 2006 23:44

Hi.
When I try to start start vlc (0.8.4a and nightly 20060218) from the commandline without the full Path, vlc does not start (WinXP and wine). (the VLC-Directory in in the Path and my cd is somewhere else)

WinXPsp2 does not Print any text on the commandline

wine:

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~/wine.cvs/dosdevices/c:$ wine vlc.exe VLC media player 0.8.5-svn-20060218-0001 Janus [00000026] main interface error: no interface module matched "hotkeys,none" [00000026] main interface error: no suitable intf module [00000001] main vlc error: interface "hotkeys,none" initialization failed [00000027] main interface error: no interface module matched "any" [00000027] main interface error: no suitable intf module [00000001] main vlc error: interface "(null)" initialization failed

When I try to start vlc.exe with the full Path, vlc comes up on WinXP and wine. (Example: "c:\Programme\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe")

when using "vlc.exe" on WinME, vlc start succesful.
argv[0] includes the full Path on WinME, but not on WinXP and wine.

Possible Solution may be GetModuleFileName(NULL....) instead of argv[0]

Any Ideas/comments?

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Postby DJ » 19 Feb 2006 03:31

The DOS box when entering DOS commands does NOT recognize long file names!

So the command would be: "c:\progra~1\videolan\vlc\vlc" and any options you want including a path to the media and file name.

:lol:

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Postby tonsofpcs » 19 Feb 2006 04:15

try running with -vvv and looking at the very very verbose output

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Postby winspool » 19 Feb 2006 12:49

try running with -vvv and looking at the very very verbose output
I started with a clean "Application Data\vlc":

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detlef@p4:~/wine.cvs/dosdevices/c:$ wine vlc.exe -vvv VLC media player 0.8.4a Janus [00000001] main vlc debug: opening config file c:\windows\profiles\detlef\Anwendungsdaten/vlc/vlcrc [00000001] main vlc warning: config file c:\windows\profiles\detlef\Anwendungsdaten/vlc/vlcrc does not exist yet [00000001] main vlc debug: checking builtin modules [00000001] main vlc debug: checking plugin modules [00000001] main vlc debug: loading plugins cache file c:\windows\profiles\detlef\Anwendungsdaten/vlc/cache/plugins-04041e.dat [00000001] main vlc warning: could not open plugins cache file c:\windows\profiles\detlef\Anwendungsdaten/vlc/cache/plugins-04041e.dat for reading [00000001] main vlc debug: recursively browsing `C:\modules' [00000001] main vlc debug: recursively browsing `C:\plugins' [00000001] main vlc debug: module bank initialized, found 14 modules ... [00000026] main interface debug: looking for interface module: 0 candidates [00000026] main interface error: no interface module matched "hotkeys,none" [00000026] main interface error: no suitable intf module [00000001] main vlc error: interface "hotkeys,none" initialization failed [00000027] main interface debug: looking for interface module: 0 candidates [00000027] main interface error: no interface module matched "any" [00000027] main interface error: no suitable intf module [00000001] main vlc error: interface "(null)" initialization failed
IMHO, "c:\plugins" and "C:\modules" are the problems. The same
is for the "locale", but there is no message from vlc about this.

when starting vlc.exe with the full path, "plugins" and "modules"
(and also "locale") have the correct path:

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detlef@p4:~/wine.cvs/drive_c$ wine Programme/VideoLAN/VLC/vlc.exe -vvv VLC media player 0.8.4a Janus [00000001] main vlc debug: opening config file c:\windows\profiles\detlef\Anwendungsdaten/vlc/vlcrc [00000001] main vlc warning: config file c:\windows\profiles\detlef\Anwendungsdaten/vlc/vlcrc does not exist yet [00000001] main vlc debug: checking builtin modules [00000001] main vlc debug: checking plugin modules [00000001] main vlc debug: loading plugins cache file c:\windows\profiles\detlef\Anwendungsdaten/vlc/cache/plugins-04041e.dat[00000001] main vlc warning: could not open plugins cache file c:\windows\profiles\detlef\Anwendungsdaten/vlc/cache/plugins-04041e.dat for reading [00000001] main vlc debug: recursively browsing `C:\Programme\VideoLAN\VLC\modules' [00000001] main vlc debug: recursively browsing `C:\Programme\VideoLAN\VLC\plugins' [00000001] main vlc debug: module bank initialized, found 209 modules
WinXP does not help at all (vlc is silent):

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d:>vlc.exe -vvv d:\>which vlc.exe c:\Programme\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe d:>
Thanks for your Help
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Postby winspool » 19 Feb 2006 13:06

The DOS box when entering DOS commands does NOT recognize long file names!
The DOS-Box recognize long names for me since win95...
So the command would be: "c:\progra~1\videolan\vlc\vlc" and any options you want including a path to the media and file name.

:lol:
That's the BUG: I must include the full Path

Expected:
just a simple "vlc.exe" works

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Postby dionoea » 19 Feb 2006 14:52

it's not a bug. No programs work without including the full path in the dos shell, unless you put it in one of the directories listed in the PATH environement variable.

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echo %PATH%
to check that. If you want to add the VLC directory to the path, run

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set PATH=%PATH%;"C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\"
.

To change the default path: open "System Properties", go on the "Advanced" tab, click "Environement Variables" and change the PATH.

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winspool

vlc must started with full Path to work from the commandline

Postby winspool » 19 Feb 2006 23:57

it's not a bug. No programs work without including the full path in the dos shell, unless you put it in one of the directories listed in the PATH environement variable.
Quotes from my Messages:
(the VLC-Directory in in the Path and my cd is somewhere else)
d:\>which vlc.exe
c:\Programme\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe
Once Again the Bug in vlc:
vlc must started with the full Path to work from the commandline (Windows XP and wine)
On win9x (95/98/ME), the OS supplied the full Path in argv[0], but that is not the case for Windows XP.

It would be nice, if someone with write-Access to the trac-system can open a ticket.

vlc in the AppDB of wine: http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?versionId=4271

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bug is in: src/misc/win32_specific.c: system_Init

Postby winspool » 20 Feb 2006 00:49

it's not a bug. No programs work without including the full path in the dos shell, unless you put it in one of the directories listed in the PATH environement variable.
I searched the source and found the bug in misc/win32_specific.c (system_Init):

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#else if( ppsz_argv[0] ) { GetFullPathName( ppsz_argv[0], MAX_PATH, psz_path, &psz_vlc ); } else if( !GetModuleFileName( NULL, psz_path, MAX_PATH ) ) { psz_path[0] = '\0'; } #endif if( (psz_vlc = strrchr( psz_path, '\\' )) ) *psz_vlc = '\0'; p_this->p_libvlc->psz_vlcpath = strdup( psz_path );
From MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/defau ... thname.asp
GetFullPathName merges the name of the current drive and directory with a specified file name
When my current Directory is "c:\", GetFullPathname() returns "c:\vlc.exe", and finaly
p_this->p_libvlc->psz_vlcpath is "c:\".

Because of this Bug, vlc searches "c:\locale" (silent) and
[00000001] main vlc debug: recursively browsing `C:\modules'
[00000001] main vlc debug: recursively browsing `C:\plugins'

Fix: Throw away the Part around "GetFullPathName()"

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#else if( !GetModuleFileName( NULL, psz_path, MAX_PATH ) ) { psz_path[0] = '\0'; } #endif
It would be fine to see an fixed vlc soon.
Thanks.
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Re: bug is in: src/misc/win32_specific.c: system_Init

Postby winspool » 01 Mar 2006 00:53

Hi dionoea.

http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/changeset/14452
:D

Works great. Thanks for the fast fix.

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Postby dionoea » 01 Mar 2006 11:18

I actually reverted that commit as it seems that it broke the mozilla plugin... i'll have to test a little bit more.
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Postby ipkiss » 01 Mar 2006 20:52

Why not using the --plugins-path command-line option (or maybe --plugin-path, i never remember)?


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