[MPlayer-users] -pphelp

[Rich Felker]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 09:07:36AM +0200, Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On 8/22/05, Robert Henney <robh at rut.org> wrote:
> > the -pphelp command line option appears to have disappeared
> > recently.  has it gone away in favor of something else? (although
> > the man page still documents it)
> > 
> > 
> > robh at hpbox:~$ mplayer -pphelp
> > MPlayer dev-CVS-050821-18:54-2.95.4 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
> > CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon Thunderbird (Family: 6, Stepping: 2)
> > Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
> > CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
> > Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx
> > 
> > 
> > Unknown option on the command line: -pphelp
> 
> Would "mplayer -vf pp=help" work?

No, filters are not allowed to exit the player. This was the stupid
design someone did before, and it horribly broke things (failed to do
proper uninit).

Rich