[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] verbosity reduction

[Robert Henney]

On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 08:59:57PM +0200, Roberto Togni wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 10:05:53 +0200
[..]
> Please don't move messages to level higher than -v.
> -v -v is unuseable (you pratically need to redirect it to a file)
> because it prints too much stuff during playback.
> 
> If you really want to reduce -v verbosity, a new intermediate
> level have to be introduced.
> 
> Ciao,
>  Roberto

what I would love to see, but would be much too complex beyond
consideration is a way to increase and decrease verbosity for particular
parts of mplayer.

say, -verbose mux=+1,filt=+2,vo=-1,gen=-1 [ etc.. ] which would increase
the verbosity 1 level on the muxer code, up by 2 levels within filters,
and down by 1 on video out and general sections.

it's very often when trying to focus on what's happening in a particular
section of mplayers insides that I would like to have as much verbosity
relative to that area of code and practically dead silence from the
rest.

-- 
robh