Hi Klaus,
I've stumbled over an inconsistency of the plugin load mechanism. Under regular conditions, plugins are loaded this way:
if (!PluginManager.LoadPlugins(true)) EXIT(2);
If loading a plugin fails, maybe because of dynamic linker error or ProcessArgs() returned false, no further plugins will be loaded, and VDR exits.
In case of --help or --version however:
PluginManager.LoadPlugins();
Now, if loading a plugin fails, VDR loads all plugins up to the failing one (which itself is in some in-between state), stops loading any more plugins, and outputs version and help for all plugins up to the failing one, maybe including the failing one. Version and help for all plugins _after_ the failing one is silently skipped.
Shouldn't LoadPlugins be non-fatal for --help and --version? Eg. add an option to continue if dll->Load() fails?
Cheers,
Udo