[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] silence the overly verbose mov demuxer

[Jan Knutar]

On Monday 06 March 2006 16:35, Erik Slagter wrote:

> Supported!!! Programs should only output produced data to stdout, the
> fatal errors should go to stderr. Only when explicitly requested, some
> info may be given at stderr.

Of course, due to MPlayer trying to do so much magic to make it easier
for the user, what constitutes an error or not will vary from user to user :)

Like when /dev/dsp is occupied and MPlayer decides to use alsa instead,
but alsa is running at 22050dmixed or something, and there are various
low-quality resamplers throughout the chain, bringing me a very sharp and
painful sound to listen to, I consider that an error, but MPlayer does not.
The default ao output lets me immediately see what went wrong, though,
and I don't have to use -v and drown in alot of other crud I don't want to
see :-)

Dito various vo and vf things, subtitle stuff, etc etc... Alot of the output
is very helpful to me the way it is :/

One thing I particulary like, is the matroska demuxer. It gives list of
tracks present, and their respective -sid, -aid and -vid, and a brief
description. Yes, -v gives you that with DVD too, but you drown in
a lot of other stuff you don't want to know.

If there's one thing that annoys me with software, it's when it's trying to
actively hide information you need, either by drowning it in heaploads
of irrelevant stuff, or beautifying it into the generic "Error!" popup dialog
box (which is often modal, just to piss you off more) which has just the
"OK" button and no explanation or anything.

 *breathe* phew, ok, done ranting.