[MPlayer-dev-eng] [patch] suppress identical tty updates

[Attila Kinali]

On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 03:41:08PM -0700, dean gaudet wrote:
> i run mplayer for audio on a box that's attached to my stereo, and it's
> running inside a screen(1) session which i'm attached to over the net...
> the rapid rate of tty updates poses several problems in this configuration
> -- one is the sheer network bandwidth, and the other is that screen will
> sometimes stop reading the tty as fast as mplayer can fill it.

RTFM and use -quiet or -really-quiet

 
> the attached patch attempts to suppress updates which are no different
> from the previous update.  i'm only partially certain i got the video
> variants correct -- i use the audio-only playback path mostly.

No patch attached, but rejected anyways. The case when MPlayer sends
the same line twice is very rare, if it happends at all. No need to
add additional complexity there. Beside that we already have options
to surpress the output at all.

			Attila Kinali