[MPlayer-DOCS] Misdocumented option -verbose

Diego Biurrun diego at biurrun.de
Thu Dec 8 09:54:56 CET 2005


On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 11:03:54PM +0200, Oded Shimon wrote:
> -verbose is totally misdocumented in the docs, it's described as simply an 
> alias to '-v', its actual behavior is accepting a number, from 0 to 9, 
> matching the different mp_msg levels (MSGL).
> 
> mplayer        => mplayer -verbose 0
> mplayer -v     => mplayer -verbose 1
> mplayer -v -v  => mplayer -verbose 2

So something like

-v
Increment verbosity level, one level for each -v found on the command line.

-verbose <0-9)
Directly set verbosity level.  See -msglevel for the meaning of each level.

?

> with msglevel patch i just sent to dev-eng, -verbose corresponds to 
> '-msglevel all=', only +5 levels.

Elaborate.

Diego




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