[MPlayer-users] option to avoid & quot; Audio: no sound& quot; ?

[Frederik Eaton]

Oliver Seitz <info <at> vtnd.de> writes:
> Create new dummy drivers for audio and video, called "stop" or "fail". 
> The drivers don't do anything, they just make mplayer exit when probed. 
> If in a -vo or -ao list all the preceeding drivers can't be used, the 
> "stop" driver will be invoked, stopping mplayer and thus avoiding 
> playing audio only or video only.

That sounds like an excellent solution. Oliver, you seem to be one of the few 
people here who has the courage to assume control over a problem, rather than 
passing the blame to other software or users.

Frederik

P.S. For the record, I never proposed to change the default. Maybe a long time 
ago, the default should have been made more sensible, but now it is too late and 
changing it would cause unwarranted amounts of pain. Perhaps the hardest part of 
this discussion might be admitting that the original design of mplayer wasn't 
perfect.