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

Jan Knutar jknutar at nic.fi
Mon Sep 19 14:06:21 CEST 2005


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 :-)

> 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)




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