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

[Roberto Togni]

On Mon, 6 Mar 2006 22:33:52 +0100
Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 09:59:08PM +0100, Roberto Togni wrote:
> > On Mon, 6 Mar 2006 20:44:24 +0100
> > Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
[...]
> But programs should have sensible defaults.  You are an MPlayer
> developer, your verbosity "needs" are obviously not the same as those of
> the normal users.  IIRC you even have "v=yes" in your config file.  So
> for you nothing would change.
> 
> It's more sensible to expect you to add that setting to your config file
> or command line than to expect normal users to use options to silence
> the output.

If I have a verbose program and I'm annoyed about it I can silence it.
If I have a silent program I'll never know it can give me valuable
information unless I try to make it verbose.

And i fail to see why users should be annoyed by mplayer console
messages.
An advanced user may even find them nice, a common user will
probably just ignore them (<noflame>just see the bugreports</noflame>),
a "windows like" desktop user probably has mplayer run by his file
browser when he double-clicks on a movie file and will never see them
anyway.

Just to make things more clear, I'm referring to messages printed before
playback starts, no message (except warning and errors) should be
printed during playback unless explicitly enabled. That's not just
because they're distracting and scroll the useful output out from your
terminal buffer, but also for performance reasons.

Ciao,
 Roberto