[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] silence the overly verbose mov demuxer
Michael Niedermayer
michaelni at gmx.at
Wed Mar 8 14:52:48 CET 2006
Hi
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 03:05:13PM +0200, Ivan Kalvachev wrote:
> 2006/3/7, Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de>:
> > On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 11:24:36PM +0100, Roberto Togni wrote:
> > >
> > > And i fail to see why users should be annoyed by mplayer console
> > > messages.
> >
> > It's a simple matter of psychology. If MPlayer prints out a lot of
> > gibberish people cannot understand they just ignore all of it. Nobody
> > will bother to read through it to find the interesting pieces. That's
> > why output should be terse by default so that the important and
> > interesting pieces get noticed.
> >
> > I'll give you an example: Do you read licenses and EULAs top to bottom?
> > How many people really do? Most have a look at it, see it is
> > unintelligible and uninteresting legalese and skip it completely...
>
> Even if nobody reads the EULA, it is still displayed.
>
> I believe that a lot of people spoken that they prefer to have some
> output they could ignore than not have it when they need it.
>
> So, let be more constructive. What info should the demuxer output by default.
>
> - subtype of file (avi1.0, ODML; MOV, QT etc...)
> - info (author, name, copyright etc... text data)
> - number of streams
>
> for each stream:
> - type of stream (audio,video,subtitle,unknow).
> - length of stream (if available)
> - way to access the stream (s/alang, s/a/vid)
> - fourcc, long description (e.g. Fourcc: SVQ3 Codec: 'Sorenson Video 3' )
>
> Do I miss something?
which demuxer, codec and vo is being used maybe
[...]
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Michael
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