[MPlayer-dev-eng] trivial verbosity issue

Oded Shimon ods15 at ods15.dyndns.org
Fri Feb 18 17:34:37 CET 2005


On Friday 18 February 2005 18:30, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 11:50:00AM -0300, Reynaldo H. Verdejo Pinochet 
wrote:
> > i think 'frame skiped' and 'duplicated frame' messages belong to
> > verbose, then again i could be wrong, it wont even be the first time ;)
>
> no, they definitely need to be displayed by default! they almost
> always indicate an error condition or at least something the user
> needs to be very aware of!! (sometimes this is just that mencoder
> sucks but is doing its best...a proper encoder should never skip or
> duplicate any frame)
>
> > will wait for more comments on the subject, anyway, toh we all
> > agre that !verbose check is obiously wrong.
>
> i'm not so sure. i thought i remembered the !verbose check being there
> because mencoder printed a more verbose skip/dup message elsewhere if
> verbose was enabled, and it didn't want to print double messages. i
> could be wrong though.
Nope, just checked, MEncoder CVS is nice and silent with '-v'...

I agree, messages should stay, '!verbose' should change to '!quiet'.

- ods15




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