[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Erase PAUSE message when no longer paused

[The Wanderer]

Bryan Henderson wrote:

> When you pause, Mplayer issues the message "===== PAUSED ======" to
> Standard Output.  It then positions the cursor to the beginning of
> the same line, in hopes that a subsequent message after the pausing
> ends will overwrite it, and thus the message is more of a state
> indicator than a message.
> 
> But if the next message doesn't come right away, you still see
> "PAUSED" while the movie is not paused, and if the next message is
> shorter than the PAUSED message, you get a mess.

I thought the message would always be overwritten immediately by the
"A/V sync and other things" status line. Are there circumstances in
which that line can be disabled or sufficiently delayed, but this will
still be printed?

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       The Wanderer

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