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

[Diego Biurrun]

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.

My example was incomplete: Imagine that deep inside that EULA something
to the effect of "By accepting this EULA you agree to pay $10000 in
extra license fees next year and every year thereafter.".  Everybody
would overlook it since it was surrounded by noise.

Of course this example is pathological and most probably not legal
either, but the point should be clear: If important information is
surrounded by unintelligible noise it will get overlooked.

> 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.

This is the point of my patches: Make the important and interesting
information stand out by taking away the debug noise.

> 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?

Send patches that implement this ;)

Diego