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

[Julián Nuñez]

Erik Slagter wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 12:30 +0200, Ivan Kalvachev wrote:
>   
>> 2006/3/4, Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de>:
>>     
>>> $subject
>>>
>>> A few printf removals are added in for free.  Objections?  Otherwise
>>> this will show up on -cvslog soon...
>>>       
>> What is this your quest to remove all output from mplayer?
>>     
>
> Supported!!! Programs should only output produced data to stdout, the
> fatal errors should go to stderr. Only when explicitly requested, some
> info may be given at stderr.
>   
>   
Not supported at all. And I will give a short explanation on why.

Al lot of times I rely on programs to learn new things, and as I don't 
know a LOT of things, I trust people that does. So if a programs gives 
me the following "big fat warning"(tm):
"Your freaking (to use the polite word) sound cards does not support 
sound feature XXX, instead it supports broken YYY. Please upgrade that 
piece of c*ap to a sound card that supports XXX, until then your music 
will sound VERY BAD."

I trust MPlayer developers know better that I that feature YYY is very 
bad, and feature XXX is good. So the next time I buy a sound card I will 
try it to have XXX. And when someone tells me: "Which sound card should 
I buy?" I'll answer "Buy one with XXX, is better". So even I didn't 
requested that info, it was useful, for me and for my friend, and for 
the world. As long as I can disable that warning somehow, it is good for me.

Isn't that better that a program that doesn't output anything and just 
sounds bad? IMHO Yes.
IMHO same things should happen with containers, colorspaces, VOs, etc. 
As I fisically can't be an expert in every possible computer field.

Just my 0,05 cents.

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