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

[Ergzay]

First I am not a developer, I also say that verbosity should not be 
removed. I like the verbosity of mplayer, it helps me work out problems 
when I play files so that I can attempt to fix it with the proper 
option changes. PLEASE don't remove verbosity from regular playing. If 
you want to remove some from verbose mode go ahead, I don't care about 
that as I never use it.

On 2005/09/19, at 4:05, Diego Biurrun wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 09:13:24AM +0300, Oded Shimon wrote:
>> On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 09:22:30PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
>>> Here is another in my seemingly endless series of small patches that
>>> reduce overall verbosity bit by bit.
>>>
>>> Comment or see this applied in a few days ;)
>>
>> Sorry, I object :/
>> Some of these messages are important to track down troubles instantly,
>
> Nonsense, there is no need for MPlayer to tell you that your CPU
> supports AltiVec instructions to track down a problem.
>
>> digging through -v is very hard if you just want to check a simple 
>> problem.
>
> That's because verbose mode is also much too verbose and prints out a
> lot of information that is only good for hardcore debugging purposes.
>
>> Also, your patch is broken - the CPU messages appear before the 
>> command
>> line parser, try it, with your patch, even with -v, i won't see the 
>> cpu
>> info.
>
> I know.  Read through the rest of cpudetect.c, there are a lot of
> verbose level messages already.  If you wish to fix this, make MPlayer
> parse the command line first.
>
>> MPlayer's verbosity is a feature, not a bug... If it bothers you, use
>> -really-quiet :)
>
> Verbosity is never a feature and we are even getting complaints about
> MPlayer's excessive verbosity.  Go read about the rule of silence in 
> The
> Art of Unix Programming:
>
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ch01s06.html#id2878450
>
>> (A certain verbosity i would like to remove is the very annoying 
>> output
>> from mencoder:
>> File not found: 'frameno.avi'
>> Failed to open frameno.avi
>> It's the worst output ever, it almost encourages using frameno..)
>
> Yes, go ahead, remove it.
>
> Diego
>
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