[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] verbosity reduction around CPU flags

[Diego Biurrun]

On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 10:00:47PM +0100, Roberto Togni wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 20:19:36 +0100
> Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> 
> > Here's a patch that makes MPlayer print info about the CPU flags it
> > encountered in verbose mode only.  Note that the info is triplicated.
> > This should be refactored someday ...
> 
> As already said in answer to
> Subject: [MPlayer-dev-eng][PATCH] verbosity reduction in streaming,
> input, CPU detection
> Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 18:22:39 +0200
> I don't see any good reason to remove them.
> They are informative and non intrusive (printed at the beginning, so
> nothing is scrolled out because of them).

They are useful only for debugging purposes.  IMO debug output should be
reserved for verbose mode and the default output should just contain
information about the movie itself (codec, fps, bpp, samplerate,
available tracks) and some basic information from the output drivers.

Diego