[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Erase PAUSE message when no longer paused

[Bryan Henderson]

On 8/3/08, The Wanderer <inverseparadox at comcast.net> wrote:
> Bryan Henderson wrote:
>
>> When you pause, Mplayer issues the message "===== PAUSED ======" to
>> Standard Output.  It then positions the cursor to the beginning of
>> the same line, in hopes that a subsequent message after the pausing
>> ends will overwrite it, and thus the message is more of a state
>> indicator than a message.
>>
>> But if the next message doesn't come right away, you still see
>> "PAUSED" while the movie is not paused, and if the next message is
>> shorter than the PAUSED message, you get a mess.
>
> I thought the message would always be overwritten immediately by the
> "A/V sync and other things" status line. Are there circumstances in
> which that line can be disabled or sufficiently delayed, but this will
> still be printed?

The -quiet option turns off the status display.