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

Erik Slagter erik at slagter.name
Mon Mar 6 17:53:27 CET 2006


On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 18:12 +0200, Jan Knutar wrote:

> Like when /dev/dsp is occupied and MPlayer decides to use alsa instead,
> but alsa is running at 22050dmixed or something, and there are various
> low-quality resamplers throughout the chain, bringing me a very sharp and
> painful sound to listen to, I consider that an error, but MPlayer does not.
> The default ao output lets me immediately see what went wrong, though,
> and I don't have to use -v and drown in alot of other crud I don't want to
> see :-)

I'd consider it a warning when the first ao cannot be opened and an
error when none can be opened (unless none are supplied of course).

> Dito various vo and vf things, subtitle stuff, etc etc... Alot of the output
> is very helpful to me the way it is :/
> 
> One thing I particulary like, is the matroska demuxer. It gives list of
> tracks present, and their respective -sid, -aid and -vid, and a brief
> description. Yes, -v gives you that with DVD too, but you drown in
> a lot of other stuff you don't want to know.

Here is where sane levels of verbosity come in. That's still sort of
lacking from mplayer.

I, for instance, would like to have only a progress bar, nothing else.
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