[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] redone status line

[The Wanderer]

Torinthiel wrote:

> While we're at status line can someone explain to me this:
> 
> help/help_mp-en.h:
> 
> #define MSGTR_Paused "\n  =====  PAUSE  =====\r"
> 
> The \n at the beginning causes the text to be printed on a new line,
> preserving previous status line.
> 
> Therefore when I pause playback several times I get a nice set of
> status lines from several random moments, which IMHO looks ugly.
> 
> Simply removing this \n fixes this (or maybe it's desired behavior,
> in which case I'd like to know this so I can sit on a proper patch to
> make it an option).

I don't know if it was intended as desired behaviour, but I certainly
use it. It not infrequently (for reasons which I can explain if desired)
happens that I'm watching a video in full screen and see something which
I want to come back to later; with this, I just have to pause/unpause,
and there's a nice little timestamp waiting for me on the console after
playback finishes.

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