[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] MSGTR_CoreDumped

[compn]

On Mon, 9 May 2011 20:32:12 +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
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>On 9 May 2011, at 14:09, Ivan Kalvachev <ikalvachev at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 5/9/11, Ingo Brückl <ib at wupperonline.de> wrote:
>>> compn wrote on Mon, 9 May 2011 06:54:01 -0400:
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>>>> maybe you'd be more interested in writing -dumpstream a status bar like
>>>> wget has?
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>>> At the moment I'd rather focus on the GUI ... mostly.
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>> How about adding at least some information like "NNN bytes written"?
>> Even if the misleading message remains, the share size of the file may
>> indicate that the requested work have been done.
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>While there haven't been many occurrences lately, most people had issues also because they had no idea where to look for the file.
>Usability-wise I'd say adding some useful information would help far more than removing the joke, even though I never considered it particularly funny.

old thread on the subject, if anyone is interested:
http://web.archiveorange.com/archive/v/rmoqPKMKikTuRzQPoX93

arpi also made this one i think

#define MSGTR_MPDEMUX_MMST_PatentedTechnologyJoke "Everything done. Thank you for downloading a media file containing proprietary and patented technology.\n"

http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-cvslog/2002-October/011150.html

some people were confused by it as well:
http://readthefuckingmanual.net/error/522/

maybe a message like 'dumping file to %d' would be useful.

-compn