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u8sand / Baka-MPlayer

The libmpv based media player
https://u8sand.github.io/Baka-MPlayer/
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[Feature Request] Please add logging and command line arguments #187

Closed MissingNoIOI closed 8 years ago

MissingNoIOI commented 8 years ago

When you currently use Baka Mplayer on Linux there are apparently neither logging capabilities nor command line arguments save for the filename. At least for me it would be very useful if Baka Mplayer would give me any kind of informations on error, if it cant play a file right now it simply skips it and I have no idea why it does that. Is a codec missing? Is the file corrupt? It would be very helpful if the program would write an error to STDERR. Maybe one could implement that with a coomand line flag like -v.

That brings me to my second request. As far as I can see Baka Mplayer doesn't write anything to STDOUT and doesn't have any command line arguments. Again, I would find it helpful if the program allowed me to set some settings from the command line for this session only, but that's not as important for me as error messages.

u8sand commented 8 years ago

We've recently made Baka MPlayer output the same messages appearing in the debugging console to stdout (#184). If that information isn't verbose enough, please set the debugging level in the preferences dialog.

Though I've considered building a command-line system, I've yet to see a strong reason to do so, as a primarily graphical-based application it would feel redundant to have command line options for all of the options you can use with configuration.

ghost commented 8 years ago

I think it's very useful, for example when you always want to play music from a folder, you can make an shortcut for it and even Firefox has commandline options... Op 10 jan. 2016 15:49 schreef "Daniel Clarke" notifications@github.com:

We've recently made Baka MPlayer output the same messages appearing in the debugging console to stdout (#184 https://github.com/u8sand/Baka-MPlayer/issues/184). If that information isn't verbose enough, please set the debugging level in the preferences dialog.

Though I've considered building a command-line system, I've yet to see a strong reason to do so, as a primarily graphical-based application it would feel redundant to have command line options for all of the options you can use with configuration.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/u8sand/Baka-MPlayer/issues/187#issuecomment-170354499 .

u8sand commented 8 years ago

@wb9688 as you can open a directory with baka-mplayer you can already do that, what would the command-line flags be trying to do?

ghost commented 8 years ago

@u8sand Open the directory on startup. And when we have commandline arguments, we can use the open with feature of our file manager...

u8sand commented 8 years ago

Not sure I was clear--the current state of baka-mplayer's "command-line-arguments" is as follows:

baka-mplayer [file-or-directory]

eg. baka-mplayer myfile.mkv or baka-mplayer . or for stdin cat myfile.mkv | baka-mplayer -

ghost commented 8 years ago

Oh, didn't know that... Op 10 jan. 2016 16:09 schreef "Daniel Clarke" notifications@github.com:

Not sure I was clear--the current state of baka-mplayer's "command-line-arguments" is as follows:

baka-mplayer [file-or-directory]

eg. baka-mplayer myfile.mkv or baka-mplayer .

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/u8sand/Baka-MPlayer/issues/187#issuecomment-170358530 .