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

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Monday, 06 March 2006 at 19:26, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> 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 ...

Unfortunately, -quiet kills the progress counter, too. I.e. there's no way
to make it -quiet or even -really-quiet without losing the progress counter,
which is a feature I'd really like to have.

R.

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