[MPlayer-dev-eng] mms:// saying "Core dumped ;)"

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Wednesday, 22 September 2004 at 23:18, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 09:40:05PM +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
> wrote:
[making MPlayer's output more user-friendly]
> > I agree.
> 
> Somewhat agree, but your output example is waaaay too minimal.

ACK.

> At the very least we need:
> AO & VO drivers.
> Audio and video codec selected (and fourcc).
> Audio params: samplerate, samplesize, channels.
> Video params: dimensions, aspect, colorspace, fps.
> Bitrates, if known.
> Any audio or video filters in use.
> Audio and subtitle languages, if known.
> List of other optional audio/sub channels, w/languages.
> File metainfo tags.

OK. So we all agree that the above info should be printed at the default
verbosity level? I'd very much like to move all "config file not found"
messages to -v level.

> > > And that's just a start...  You also need to make "-idx" a default,
> > 
> > I believe MPlayer outputs something about -idx if you try to seek in a
> > file without an index.
> 
> Exactly. Actually it should dynamically build _just the part of the
> index needed_ when you attempt to seek, and also build the index as
> the file is played... Then -idx would be irrelevant. And this won't
> affect speed at all. It just requires some code. Care to send a patch?

Not me, at least not yet. I could work on that output, though, if I can
find some time.

> > > add "-zoom" when a driver doesn't have hardware scaling,
> > 
> > Such driver (X11? DGA?) could output a small informational text, saying:
> > "Hardware scaling unavailable, use -zoom for software scaling (SLOW)".
> 
> Agree. Drivers without hardware scaling should output a warning (and
> optionally fail, to force vf_scale to get loaded) if the aspect is
> wrong by more than a small threshold.

Aspect? I'm afraid I don't follow. What does aspect have to do with this?

R.

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