[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH, Discussion] User friendly feature: don't complain about avisynth dll

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 12:47:52AM +0200, Jan Knutar wrote:
> This patch stops mplayer from complaining about avisynth dll load 
> failures. Avisynth is highly specific, it's not useful for playing back 
> anything, and those who are trying to use it better know what they're 
> doing. Currently avisynth failure message is presented to the user 
> anytime the user tries to play a file which mplayer can not play, 
> causing the user to try hunt for the avisynth dlls and eventually 
> asking on #mplayer or the mailing list...
> 
> afaik it doesn't even work on Linux.

I'm not sure if this is the best way to solve the issue, but it solves
the issue.  The message is a big usability problem.  Any better ideas?
Otherwise I am very tempted to apply the patch.

Diego