[vlc-commits] aout: lower the error level in case of passthrough error

[Thomas Guillem]

vlc | branch: master | Thomas Guillem <thomas at gllm.fr> | Tue Sep 15 16:29:24 2020 +0200| [f38584ff337674ab12e776d640a14906f60893d7] | committer: Thomas Guillem

aout: lower the error level in case of passthrough error

This error message was confusing the user since the audio playback
works normally after getting such error message.

> http://git.videolan.org/gitweb.cgi/vlc.git/?a=commit;h=f38584ff337674ab12e776d640a14906f60893d7
---

 src/audio_output/output.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/audio_output/output.c b/src/audio_output/output.c
index e144159e05..1d4c01421d 100644
--- a/src/audio_output/output.c
+++ b/src/audio_output/output.c
@@ -605,7 +605,11 @@ int aout_OutputNew (audio_output_t *aout)
     vlc_mutex_unlock(&owner->lock);
     if (ret)
     {
-        msg_Err (aout, "failed to start audio output");
+        if (AOUT_FMT_LINEAR(fmt))
+            msg_Err (aout, "failed to start audio output");
+        else
+            msg_Warn (aout, "failed to start passthrough audio output, "
+                      "failing back to linear format");
         return -1;
     }
     assert(aout->flush && aout->play && aout->time_get && aout->pause);