[MPlayer-users] Re: Core dumped ;) was: playing a ripped dvd

[Jonathan Rogers]

D Richard Felker III wrote:
> Hint: the system's core dump message usually doesn't end in a
> winking smiley... ;)

No, but mplayer could have a signal handler to do that, couldn't it? It 
is a confusing message. I had assumed it was a bug until I found this 
thread. I hadn't worried about it, since the stream was indeed intact, 
but I think it does detract from mplayer's usability, as do some other 
misleading "error" messages.

Perhaps the solution would be to move messages that appear to be errors 
to verbosity level 1 or 2. This is an example of the type of thing that 
doesn't stop people who are willing to take the time to experiment, but 
chases casual users away. Maybe that was the intent?

Jonathan Rogers