[MPlayer-users] 12 thoughts about MPlayer

[Jukka Tastula]

On Sunday 14 April 2002 01:34, Peter Magnusson wrote:

>  2:
> It would be good if spam like this could be disabled:
> flashdance kernel: mga_vid: Saved colorkey (ON: 1  01:01:FE)
> flashdance kernel: mga_vid: Restoring colorkey (ON: 1  01:01:FE

Talking about spam, have any of you ever looked at mplayer output? 

Lets take our average porn clip for example. Can someone please tell me, 
what is Joe User, who is not a developer (like most of mplayer users I dare 
assume), going to do with 20 lines of information like

Not an URL!
CACHE_PRE_INIT: 0 [0] 0  pre:209715  eof:0  
Detected AVI file format!
list_end=0x17A
MainAVIHeader.dwFlags: (2064) HAS_INDEX TRUST_CKTYPE
list_end=0xEE
list_end=0x17A
list_end=0x226322
[V] filefmt:3  fourcc:0x33564944  size:320x240  fps:29.97  ftime:=0.0334
audio_setup: frags:  32/32  (2048 bytes/frag)  free:  65536
[xmga] x: 800 y: 0 w: 1152 h: 864
[xmga] dcx: 800 dcy: 0 dx: 0 dy: 0 dw: 1152 dh: 864
[xmga-fs] dcx: 800 dcy: 0 dx: 0 dy: 0 dw: 1152 dh: 864
[mga] Using 3 buffers.
[xmga] x: 800 y: 0 w: 1152 h: 864
[xmga] dcx: 800 dcy: 0 dx: 0 dy: 0 dw: 1152 dh: 864
[xmga-fs] dcx: 800 dcy: 0 dx: 0 dy: 0 dw: 1152 dh: 864
stat: 1
[xmga] x: 800 y: 0 w: 1152 h: 864
[xmga] dcx: 800 dcy: 0 dx: 0 dy: 0 dw: 1152 dh: 864
[xmga-fs] dcx: 800 dcy: 0 dx: 0 dy: 0 dw: 1152 dh: 864

Sometimes there appears some line with "chunksize=" and after that some 
fucked up chars which completely destroy xterms/fb/text -console's ability 
to show readable letters and makes the rest of the output unreadable. Sigh.

I might be alone saying this, but I think this really makes it hard to find 
the IMPORTANT things from the output.

Sure, you could just say anyone can just add if(verbose) or change MSGL_INFO 
to MSGL_V for the offending lines but as the only usable mplayer is the one 
in the cvs and it is updated all the time its a pain to do for every cvs up 
even with diffs. I doubt the average mplayer user could do that anyway.