[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] silence the overly verbose mov demuxer

[Roberto Togni]

On Mon, 06 Mar 2006 15:35:51 +0100
Erik Slagter <erik at slagter.name> wrote:

> On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 12:30 +0200, Ivan Kalvachev wrote:
> > 2006/3/4, Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de>:
> > > $subject
> > >
> > > A few printf removals are added in for free.  Objections?  Otherwise
> > > this will show up on -cvslog soon...
> > 
> > What is this your quest to remove all output from mplayer?
> 
> Supported!!! Programs should only output produced data to stdout, the
> fatal errors should go to stderr. Only when explicitly requested, some
> info may be given at stderr.

I will oppose any attempt to reduce MPlayer output beyond a reasonable
level.
And i don't consider copyright line and file name a reasonable output :)

As an example, if i don't hear any sound i want to be able to know if
the file does not have an audio track, if it's unsupported, if ao is
busy, or if i just forgot to switch on the speakers. And that without
having to rerun MPlayer with verbose parameters.

Output destination is a different matter, if the program have pipeable
output the messages should go to stderr, but it that's not true stdout
sounds reasonable too.

Ciao,
 Roberto