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

[Nix]

On 2010.10.22. 09:52, Oliver Seitz wrote:
>
>> 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.
Why must you change the default behaviour? It's very not nice, really. 
The whole point why I signed up to this mailing list was because someone 
made a bug that changed how -monitoraspect works.
>
>> 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.
While I know some hardcore guys using MPlayer on Windows, I'm really not 
sure if there's much point in that:
1) I haven't used that new PowerShell thingy but their old shell was 
purified *pain* and as such using CLI programs in Windows was very 
frustrating, if you were used to bash
2) with cygwin it should be possible to use regular *nix tools, like, 
grep and decent shell scripting
3) in my very humble opinion, there are probably better options for 
Windows platform, say, Combined Community Codec Pack or CCCP for short

Cheers,
nix