[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] silence the overly verbose mov demuxer

[Oded Shimon]

On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 03:36:43PM +0100, Erik Slagter wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 11:35 +0100, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> > > What is this your quest to remove all output from mplayer?
> > 
> > It's a Un*x paradigm not to output anything unless there's an error.
> > There's too much chatter from MPlayer by default and it's annoying sometimes.
> 
> It's annoying mostly ;-)

A lot of time I find MPlayer output very valuable...

> Not being able to run mencoder inside a pipe line is also annoying.

Maybe MEncoder should be quited down, it is somewhat a standard unix 
program. But MPlayer is quite unique, and I allow it to break the unix 
philosophy, because it doesn't fall into the 2 simple genres of programs - 
those that do something and quit, and those that only wait for the user and 
do little... mplayer does both, and in general isn't very pipable...

Anyway I am somewhat in favor of changing the mplayer output into some 
cleaner/more idealistic, but I can't really think of anything better...

- ods15