request for another option to the vlc command line interface.
Gildas Bazin
gbazin at netcourrier.com
Mon Jun 25 18:43:29 CEST 2001
Hi,
I've played a little with cosmetic aspects of the win32 vlc port (hey, now
that the dvd plugin and network input are working, it's time for a little bit
of polishing :)
Basically I want the VLC to be a GUI application and not a console one (the
mwindows option of mingw32) so that we don't have this annoying dos command
box poping up everytime you run VLC.
My problem is that if you make VLC a GUI application then output commands
like printf and friends won't do anything. So you loose all the precious
debug info.
The solution is to create an attached dos console only when you run VLC with
for expample the verbose command (-v), in short the -v option would open a
debug console.
But then, I've got another problem: I cannot redirect anymore the debug
messages to a file ( I used to use vlc -vvv > debug.txt ), and this is really
annoying as win9x dos command boxes only have a small screen buffer size
which allow you only a few lines of debug history.
All this boring explanation to say that to be able to redirect debug messages
to a file, the only solution I can see would be to include this option in the
VLC command line args (an option like vlc -v --stdoutput=debug.txt)
Would anybody mind if I implemented such an option (which is obviously
absolutly useless on linux), or maybe someone has a better idea ?
--
Gildas
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