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

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 07:13:57PM +0100, Roberto Togni wrote:
> On Mon, 06 Mar 2006 15:35:51 +0100
> Erik Slagter <erik at slagter.name> 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.
> 
> I will oppose any attempt to reduce MPlayer output beyond a reasonable
> level.
> And i don't consider copyright line and file name a reasonable output :)
> 
> As an example, if i don't hear any sound i want to be able to know if
> the file does not have an audio track, if it's unsupported, if ao is
> busy, or if i just forgot to switch on the speakers. And that without
> having to rerun MPlayer with verbose parameters.

fully agree, theres /dev/null -quiet and your eyelids already ...

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Michael