[Mplayer-cvslog] CVS: main cfg-common.h,1.91,1.92

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 02:00:15PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> Arpi writes:
>  > > Arpi of Ize writes:
>  > >  > Modified Files:
>  > >  > 	cfg-common.h 
>  > >  > Log Message:
>  > >  > (experimental, for testing/debugging) -novideo option added
>  > >  > 
>  > >  > +	{"novideo", &video_id, CONF_TYPE_FLAG, 0, -1, -2, NULL},
>  > > 
>  > > What does this do?  Force not treating the file (stream?) as a video?
>  > 
>  > same as -nosound but for video
> 
> That's what I assumed first, but I tried it with an avi file and there
> are apparently still problems:
> 
> Playing /var/tmp/GoneNutty.avi
> AVI file format detected.
> AVI_NI: No video stream found.
> Falling back on trying to parse playlist /var/tmp/GoneNutty.avi...
> 
> Does not currently work for me with avi and mpg movies.
> 
> Oh, 0_90 stuff?  Sounds like a very simple option that should be there
> for completeness.

Probably not. Like you just observed, many of the demuxers are broken
in novideo mode, so the option should not be available in 0.90 branch,
IMO.

Rich