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

[Oliver Seitz]

> Create new dummy drivers for audio and video, called "stop" or "fail".
> The drivers don't do anything, they just make mplayer exit when probed.
> If in a -vo or -ao list all the preceeding drivers can't be used, the
> "stop" driver will be invoked, stopping mplayer and thus avoiding
> playing audio only or video only.

I'm not sure if it fully works. It only catches failing -vo and -ao. If 
video does not play due to codec reasons, audio still would play as the 
video device would not be tried then at all.

Perhaps there would be also "stop" dummy audio and video codecs needed.

Greets,
Kiste