[MPlayer-dev-eng] userfriendly hints?

[Jan Knutar]

On Sunday 13 August 2006 15:09, Siarhei Siamashka wrote:

> And now a suggestion. What about showing a warning message in libmp3
> initialization code when run on ARM? Something like 'Warning: you are using
> libmp3 decoder on ARM cpu, if you experience poor performance and don't
> have hardware floating point support, consider using -ac mad instead' .
> That should explicitly guide users into the right direction, more people will
> be able to successfully compile and run MPlayer and you may get more
> contributors willing to work on better ARM support.

Such hints would be a good idea elsewhere in MPlayer too, not just about
ARM...

Maybe "You're trying to play a zero-size file", or "This looks like a HTML file,
maybe you need a web browser" instead of current error message that says
failed to load avisynth32.dll, which of course leads the user on a hunt for that
file...