[MPlayer-users] Some buggy-messages and some suggestions.

[Victor Farias]

Hi,

Some time ago, I found some "ugly details" while reading MPlayer's output 
messages.

a) The infamous "Audio file file format detected" message when you play 
audio-only files.

I think this situation about "Audio file file format..." is not true at all, 
because there are several audio-only formats supported in MPlayer that are 
not detected as audio-only files.

My suggestion is to separate from "demux_audio.c" all the supported formats 
(I can see FLAC, MP3 and WAV) and create different files for each format.

I do not know anything about programming, but I thought about the following 
procedure:

- demux_flac.c  -> demuxer for FLAC files.
- demux_mp3.c   -> demuxer for MP3 files.
- demux_wav.c   -> demuxer for WAV files.
- demux_audio.c -> to include shared code (to avoid code duplication if 
any).

This way we can avoid the "Audio file file format..." issue and keep 
consistency.

b) The difference between multimedia instructions that you can see while 
running "configure" (at build stage) and while running MPlayer (at usage 
stage):

At build stage you can see:

Checking for kernel support of mmxext ... yes
Checking for kernel support of 3dnowext ... yes

At usage stage you can see:

MMX2: 1
3DNow2: 1

... Also, when you look at MPlayer's output, you can see the following 
(minor) difference:

CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx

There you can see the difference between 3DNow2 and 3DNowEx (which is not 
even displayed as "3DNowExt").

You can find those lines starting from mplayer.c:2139.

Is this behavior intended?

c) While playing some OGM files, the console will get "flooded" (maybe is 
too much to say "flooded") with not-so-important-information:

=============================================================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
*[Ogg] Language for -sid 0 is '-slang "English (Formated)"'
*Demuxer info Language changed to English (Formated)
*[Ogg] Language for -sid 1 is '-slang "English (Unformated)"'
*Demuxer info Language changed to English (Unformated)
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 96.0 kbit/6.25% (ratio: 12000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [ffvorbis] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg Vorbis decoder)
=============================================================

I do not think all that extra output (see the "*" symbol) is really 
important, and could be changed from MSGL_INFO to MSGL_V.

You can find those lines in demux_ogg.c:437 and demuxer.c:974.

I hope you can understand this report.

Bye

* Sorry for my poor english.

--
Yakusoku wa iranai.

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