[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] MSGTR_CoreDumped

[compn]

On Mon, 09 May 2011 12:45:05 +0200, Ingo Brückl wrote:
>Dan Oscarsson wrote on Mon, 09 May 2011 12:31:21 +0200:
>
>> mån 2011-05-09 klockan 11:33 +0200 skrev Ingo Brückl:
>>> What's the point with the message
>>>
>>>   #define MSGTR_CoreDumped "Core dumped ;)\n"
>>>
>>> coming as an information after a stream has been dumped into a file?
>>>
>>> I'm really into humor, but when I first got this message, I though something
>>> has gone horribly wrong. So far, I only knew "core dumps" from the Linux
>>> kernel.
>>>
>>> Shouldn't we change it to avoid confusion?
>
>> I have seen that too. Yes, good idea.
>
>> Maybe use "Dump completed", "Dump finished" or "Stream dumped" instead.
>
>The message also appears after a loss of connection, so "Dump completed",
>"Dump finished" or "Stream dumped" may not be accurate, because there may
>not be a dump "completion", it just ended (for what reason ever).

core dumped is one of the few jokes in mplayer. its been kept in for a
long time. maybe you'd be more interested in writing -dumpstream a
status bar like wget has?

-compn