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

[Erik Slagter]

On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 15:12 -0300, Julián Nuñez wrote:
> 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.

Time for an "expert" option ;-)

Anyway, as somebody else already mentioned, the codec initialisation
messages are really not interesting for us mere mortals.
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