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

[Robert Edele]

On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 19:13 +0100, Roberto Togni wrote:
> On Mon, 06 Mar 2006 15:35:51 +0100
> Erik Slagter <erik at slagter.name> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 12:30 +0200, Ivan Kalvachev wrote:
> > > 2006/3/4, Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de>:
> > > > $subject
> > > >
> > > > A few printf removals are added in for free.  Objections?  Otherwise
> > > > this will show up on -cvslog soon...
> > > 
> > > What is this your quest to remove all output from mplayer?
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> I will oppose any attempt to reduce MPlayer output beyond a reasonable
> level.
> And i don't consider copyright line and file name a reasonable output :)
> 
> As an example, if i don't hear any sound i want to be able to know if
> the file does not have an audio track, if it's unsupported, if ao is
> busy, or if i just forgot to switch on the speakers. And that without
> having to rerun MPlayer with verbose parameters.
> 
> Output destination is a different matter, if the program have pipeable
> output the messages should go to stderr, but it that's not true stdout
> sounds reasonable too.
> 
> Ciao,
>  Roberto
> 
The file's name is useful to have echoed when you play multiple files.
Considering some of the other stuff that is outputted, I would keep file
names.

Sincerely,
Robert Edele