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

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 10:24:31AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote:
> 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.

it's also very useful when debugging. i use it a lot while testing
inverse telecine stuff.

rich