[MPlayer-dev-eng] version information in mplayer binary

[Reimar Döffinger]

Hi.
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 09:13:43AM +0300, Oded Shimon wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 10:20:24PM +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> > On Thursday, 18 August 2005 at 20:55, lists at pedro.larroy.com wrote:
> > > I think --version option should be added to mplayer / mencoder. Is there
> > > a reason why it doesn't exist?
> > 
> > MPlayer doesn't support GNU-style long options in general.
> > But I suppose a patch adding -version would be easily accepted.
> 
> Heh, no need, just run mplayer!
> 
> MPlayer 1.0pre7-3.3.5 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team

You can even run mplayer --version, then you won't get the long help
text below. You only have to ignore the "Unknown option" part *g*

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger