[MPlayer-dev-eng] MSGTR messages for vid/aid in non-verbose output?

[Diego Biurrun]

On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 03:03:53PM +0300, Andrew Savchenko wrote:
> 
> How about to add messages about found vid/aid numbers to standart 
> (non-verbose) mplayer output? for examle:
> "video stream detected, vid %d"
> "audio stream detected, aid %d"
> regardless to the container format.
> 
> IMO this won't hurt anyone, but will be very usefull, because there 
> are a lot of AVIs with some streams (e.g. multilingual). It is 
> very unconvenient to run mplayer every time with '-v' in order to 
> see if movie have some tracks and to check out their numbers, 
> because -v provides a lot of output during playback. Preffered 
> language option (-alang) don't help, because a lot of movies 
> doesn't contain language tags.
> 
> I can make appropriate patch, if this will be allowed.

Such a patch would be very much welcome.  Especially for AVI files we
currently do not print any hint that it may contain multiple audio
tracks.  AFAIK all other demuxers do, though.

Diego