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

[Diego Biurrun]

On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 09:59:09PM +0100, Roberto Togni wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Mar 2006 20:39:40 +0100
> Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> 
> [...]
> > "When a program has nothing surprising to say, it should say nothing."
> > 
> MPlayer have many important things to say, and it says them in a
> non-invasive way on the console, not on its main output. If the messages
> were outputted with OSD, or mixed over the soundtrack with a
> text-to-speech program you would be right to complain :)

MPlayer does not always have a video output, think of audio-only files
or image vo drivers..  Then again, I think you were just pulling my leg
:)

> > > There's too much chatter from MPlayer by default and it's annoying sometimes.
> > 
> > Yes, MPlayer is much too verbose.  I find it annoying and I have had
> > users complain to me about it.  Plus it's a big problem when using
> > MEncoder in a pipe.
> 
> MPlayer != MEncoder, they have different purposes and different usage
> methods.

But since so much of the code is common, so are the problems.  Efforts
to silence the output of one will always have to take into account the
other...

Diego