[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] 2nd try: add -name and -title options for x video_outs

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 09:12:01PM +0100, Paul TT wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Nov 2009 19:25:05 +0100
> Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> wrote:
> > > what do you think?
> > 
> > Well, I had thought of literally appending it,
> > vo_wintitle = "MPlayer"
> > playing movie.avi
> > results in
> > MPlayermovie.avi
> i don't like it, not very much readable, imho :(
> > whereas your example could be achieved with
> > vo_wintitle = "MPlayer - "
> > I just realize that this wraps together with the -fixed-vo issue,
> > you can't handle this properly because you override the user-give
> > vo_wintitle instead of building the complete title into some other
> > variable.
> yes
> anyway i don't like to extend the title over the filename.
> suppose you're looking at "The new very serial episodes reallly
> cool.recorded.by.jumble.jumble.peter_HDVERSION_ROTFL_LOL_LOL_XXX_S01Ep.02.avi"
> and this with a little resolution.
> you'll see seomthing like
> "Mplayer - T...Ep.02.avi"
> which tells you nothing about the clip, or
> "The new very ...vi - Mplayer"
> which again doesn't tell you nothing about the episode youre looking at.
> i thing it's easy to vanify the information by appending
> MPlayer-or-something-else to the title.
> hey, the default behaviour will be yet to title only MPlayer, so if you
> change it, you already know you're using MPlayer....

Uh.. A user can still set the title to "" to have just the file name.
Having some constant string might be useful e.g. for Window managers to
detect this Window belongs to MPlayer, and either way it's just an
additional feature, it does not remove anything.