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

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Wednesday, 08 March 2006 at 14:52, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 03:05:13PM +0200, Ivan Kalvachev wrote:
> > 2006/3/7, Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de>:
> > > On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 11:24:36PM +0100, Roberto Togni wrote:
> > > >
> > > > And i fail to see why users should be annoyed by mplayer console
> > > > messages.
> > >
> > > It's a simple matter of psychology.  If MPlayer prints out a lot of
> > > gibberish people cannot understand they just ignore all of it.  Nobody
> > > will bother to read through it to find the interesting pieces.  That's
> > > why output should be terse by default so that the important and
> > > interesting pieces get noticed.
> > >
> > > I'll give you an example: Do you read licenses and EULAs top to bottom?
> > > How many people really do?  Most have a look at it, see it is
> > > unintelligible and uninteresting legalese and skip it completely...
> > 
> > Even if nobody reads the EULA, it is still displayed.
> > 
> > I believe that a lot of people spoken that they prefer to have some
> > output they could ignore than not have it when they need it.
> > 
> > So, let be more constructive. What info should the demuxer output by default.
> > 
> > - subtype of file (avi1.0, ODML; MOV, QT etc...)
> > - info (author, name, copyright etc... text data)
> > - number of streams
> > 
> > for each stream:
> > - type of stream (audio,video,subtitle,unknow).
> > - length of stream (if available)
> > - way to access the stream (s/alang, s/a/vid)
> > - fourcc, long description (e.g. Fourcc: SVQ3  Codec: 'Sorenson Video 3' )
> > 
> > Do I miss something?
> 
> which demuxer, codec and vo is being used maybe

What I said earlier, i.e. resolution, bitrate, fps for video streams and
sampling rate, number of channels and bitrate for audio streams (similarly
to what it's like now).

R.

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