[MPlayer-cygwin] BUGREPORT: -msgcolor causes ANSI escape sequences in output

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Tue, Jan 01, 2013 at 10:54:50PM -0800, John Brown wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> The -msgcolor flag causes ANSI escape sequences to be displayed
> in MPlayer output. For example:
> 
> $ ./mplayer.exe -msgcolor -ao help
> ←[0;37mMPlayer SVN-r35712-4.7.2 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team
> ←[0m←[0;37m181 audio & 389 video codecs
> ←[0m←[0;37mAvailable audio output drivers:
> ←[0m←[0;37m     win32   Windows waveOut audio output
> ←[0m←[0;37m     mpegpes MPEG-PES audio output
> ←[0m←[0;37m     null    Null audio output
> ←[0m←[0;37m     pcm     RAW PCM/WAVE file writer audio output
> ←[0m←[0;37m
> ←[0m

That's exactly what the option is supposed to do.

> I have a Sherpya build (Sherpya-SVN-r34401-4.6.2) from 
> 
> 2011-12-06 14:59:16 -0500 that works as expected.

Can't be since the above behaviour is the expected behaviour.
He might have used a custom patch to use some functionality
that works on the Windows command-line though, but no such
feature ever existed in MPlayer.