[MPlayer-dev-eng] MPlayer error messages going to 'stdout' instead of 'stderr'?

Ross Finlayson finlayson at live.com
Mon May 5 00:36:05 CEST 2003


 From a recent message to the "users" list:
>Well you could use -aofile /dev/stdout, but mplayer spams lots of
>messages to stdout in addition to stderr.

Is this really the case?  If so, these (error messages to 'stdout' instead 
of 'stderr') should all be tracked down and fixed, IMHO.  'stdout' should 
be left for pure stream output only, so that pipes can be used.

         Ross.



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