[MPlayer-dev-eng] MPLAYER_VERBOSE environment variable?

Diego Biurrun diego at biurrun.de
Thu Jan 19 11:19:09 CET 2006


On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 08:37:15PM -0500, Chuck Blake wrote:
> >Nevertheless the environment variable needs to be documented in the man
> >page for this to be committed...
> 
>   Agreed. [ Seemed premature if you guys were going to reject it. ]
>   How about this?  Short and sweet...No need to burden the docs with long-
>   winded rationales/justifications/etc.

OK

>   The other reason I held off originally is that I cannot translate it into
>   all the various languages MPlayer provides with its docs.

You don't need to, English is fine.

> +.B MPLAYER_VERBOSE
> +The default verbosity level across all modules.
> +If this variable is unset MPlayer/MEncoder uses the value 0.

Maybe say a word about negative values, it's not completely obvious that
you can use negative values.

> +See also the -v and -msglevel options.

\-v, \-msglevel

Please send one patch that includes everything, makes applying it
easier.

Diego




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