[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] verbosity reduction

[Diego Biurrun]

On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 03:06:21PM +0300, Jan Knutar wrote:
> On Monday 19 September 2005 11:05, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> 
> > Nonsense, there is no need for MPlayer to tell you that your CPU
> > supports AltiVec instructions to track down a problem.
> 
> On the contrary, this is the single best way to spot a user with a broken
> marillat binary, he often compiles i586 packages with MMX, K6 packages
> with SSE, and other strange things, which of course just crashes for
> alot of people :-)

And I agree it should be on in verbose mode, which was made to spot
problems.

> > Verbosity is never a feature and we are even getting complaints about
> > MPlayer's excessive verbosity.
> 
> Compared to xine, MPlayer isn't that verbose at all :-)
> (atleast last time I checked)

What were you smoking? ;-)

xine normally just prints two lines to the console:

This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.99.3.
(c) 2000-2004 The xine Team.

Diego