[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: [PATCH] MPlayer console output

[Joey Parrish]

On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 11:05:34PM +0000, adland wrote:
> > And lots of your changes are nonsense.  If there's
> > an error, leave it as MSGL_ERR.
> 
> i see your point but
> some messages are ignorable as they are not important like RTC errors
> etc. Not a critical problem so decided to make MSGL_V viewable with -v

Why not just change mp_msg level to show only fatal messages?
And why should you need to change a lot of mplayer to do it?
If you compile from source often like most devs, just keep a local
patchset for the things that cvs won't accept.  There are some things
you'll want to do that the rest of mplayer will disagree with, and that
will always be the case when you work with very opinionated people.  If
and when you lose some arguments, start your own patchset.  No hard
feelings.

> > or &> /dev/null.
> okay
> well this is sort of overkill as all messages (not stderr) would then
>  disappear

Yes, I know.  I'm trying to remind you that there are always other
options.  (Especially when your solution is unpopular.)

--Joey

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