[Ffmpeg-devel] logs with printf and fprintf

[Benjamin Larsson]

DKorchev at aol.com wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I have a suggestion that will  simplify the integration process of ffmpeg 
>into another  application.
>
>Current code has a lot of printf and fprintf statements. It  would be better 
>to define a log function like
>
>void my_log(log_type,  message,...);
>
>where log_type is one of these LOG_ERROR, LOG_INFO,  LOG_WARNING, etc.
>
>That would make it easier to redirect all messages  to a file or suppress 
>them depending on application requirements.
>This is  easy to change and it does not need to be done for all messages at 
>once because  it should not break any code.
>
>Thanks,
>  
>
There is already av_log, but we havn't replaced all printf's yet. Patches
are welcome.

MvH
Benjamin Larsson

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