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

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 11:01:16AM -0500, Rich Felker wrote:
> 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.

Applied.

Diego