[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Is colorful console output still maintained?

[Oded Shimon]

On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 09:39:00AM +0800, Zuxy Meng wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 2006/10/30, Andrew Savchenko <Bircoph at list.ru>:
> >On 29 Oct 2006 16:04, Jan Knutar wrote:
> >> On Sunday 29 October 2006 12:19, Andrew Savchenko wrote:
> >> > On 29 Îêòÿáðü 2006 10:17 Zuxy Meng wrote:
> >> > > Seems there's no way to turn it on except that you hack
> >> > > config.h by hand.
> >> >
> >> > ???
> >> > Do you mean -vo caca? It works fine with r20499 without any
> >> > hacking.
> >>
> >> He means:
> >> //#define MSG_USE_COLORS 1
> >>
> >> in config.h.
> >>
> >> Uncomment that, and mplayer console output might be colourized.
> >> Or it might blow up.
> >
> >Interesting feature, it works for me. Are there any objections to
> >add it to configure's miscellaneous options list (disabled by
> >default)? But I'm not sure that miscellaneous is appropriate
> >place. Patch attached.
> >
> >Also it seems that mplayer compiled in this way doesn't restore
> >original terminal settings. It should be fixed somedays...
> 
> Sure. And I think the "HEADER: " output's simply redundant and should
> be removed. Comments?

Totally wrong, I find that the most useful part of the color output. 
together with that, you can know which parts you want to silence out with 
-msglevel .

- ods15