[MPlayer-DOCS] Misdocumented option -verbose

[Oded Shimon]

On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 09:54:56AM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> 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.

no, -verbose 0-4.
see below

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

-verbose 0 => -msglevel all=5
-verbose 1 => -msglevel all=6
-verbose 2 => -msglevel all=7

and so on. imo the option is obsolete and can/should be removed

- ods15