[MPlayer-users] option to avoid "Audio: no sound"?

[Oliver Seitz]

> That is precisely what MPlayer does when it just continues playing
> at least _something_. The request here is for MPlayer to just fail,
> which generally is not how MPlayer behaves, and I'd be very strongly
> opposed to make this the default behaviour.

I'd prefer it the other way round, too. I suggested the "failing 
default" just because it could easily be changed by "-vo ,null -ao 
,null" without the need for new switches.

> As a workaround it should be possible to write a wrapper script that
> searches for the error message and in this case kills MPlayer...

Yes, that's definitely possible on *nix. I presume it to be a lot harder 
on windows, though.

Greets,
Kiste