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

[Rich Felker]

On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 12:01:45PM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> 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.

Agreed. Apply unless someone can provide a better solution in the next
day or two... It can always be replaced by a cleaner fix later, but
I'm really disgusted with these bogus error message MPlayer prints
which point confused users in the wrong direction, and often towards
Windows crap which perpetuates the myth that MPlayer is a
windows-dll-based player.

Rich