[MPlayer-dev-eng] shell script for bug report

[Arpi]

Hi,

> s
>  > in getting the relevant info for system and hardware and drivers.
> 
> Excellent idea!

not really

there were a discussion on this topic at -users some week ago...

let's see the tipical user - he will run this script, mail (!) the
output and waiting for the fix (or telling to RTFM). bad. 

the info what this script collects:
- far from being enough
- has too much useless thing
- too big, to be mailed

if we vote for such bugreporting solution, then the script has to
- grep out the usefull part of these infos
  (ls /lib/libc* is bad idea..., X -version is even worse)
- grep out the usefull lines of config.* files
- check if mplayer binary is compiled with debugging enabled, warn user if not
- check if mplayer is fresh enough, refuse to bugreport if it's CVS version
  older than 2 days or release v. older than 2 weeks
- check if user has old codecs.conf somewhere
- tells user to include description of bug, upload sample file and mplayer
  -v output. 
- somehow detects audio/video driver type (alsa 0.5/0.9/oss etc) and version
  or ask the user

maybe the script could be run in wrapper mode, so:
  mplayer-bug file.avi -vo x11
whould run mplayer -v file.avi -vo x11 in gdb... (after check for
-enable-debug)


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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