[vlc-devel] File logging versus message redirecting

[Peter Tap]

Thanks Kaarlo. 


I couldn't find any documentation on "log-verbose" option. Is this an undocumented feature?

Regards,
Peter



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 From: Kaarlo Räihä <kaarlo.raiha at gmail.com>
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Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2012 1:08 AM
Subject: Re: [vlc-devel] File logging versus message redirecting
 

18. helmikuuta 2012 9.42 Peter Tap <ptrtap at yahoo.com> kirjoitti:

Hi Kaarlo,
>
>
>Thank you for your  help.
>
>The online documentation at http://www.videolan.org/doc/play-howto/en/ch04.html mentions that there is also a level 3.
>
>
>However, I first tried it with level 2 and it was the same problem.
>
>
>I also am a bit confused about the syntax. Is the right syntax "--verbose n" or "--verbose=n?" 
>

Both will work. There is also --log-verbose option.
 

>
>Thanks
>Peter
>
>
>
>________________________________
> From: Kaarlo Räihä <kaarlo.raiha at gmail.com>
>To: Mailing list for VLC media player developers <vlc-devel at videolan.org> 
>Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 11:26 PM
>Subject: Re: [vlc-devel] File logging versus message redirecting
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>18. helmikuuta 2012 5.02 Peter Tap <ptrtap at yahoo.com> kirjoitti:
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>
>>
>>Folks,
>>
>>
>>Environment: Ubuntu 11.10
>>
>>There are two different ways I can create a batch command to log messages from VLC: 
>>
>>
>>Method 1:
>>
>>
>>     vlc --file-logging --logfile=Logs/vlc.log --verbose 3 
>>
>>
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>>Method 2:
>>     vlc --verbose 3 2>Logs/vlc.log
>>
>>
>>In the second case, I am just redirecting stderr to the log file.
>>
>>
>>Method 2 seems to capture more messages. For example, I am using remote control interface in vlc and I see more information from "oldrc" that I don't see in method 1. Here is an example:
>>   [0x16859d8] oldrc interface debug: base: localhost, port: 4000
>>
>>
>>
>>Although the verbosity level is the same in both cases, why does vlc behave differently?
>>
>
>
>According to the command-line help, there isn't --verbose 3
>"-v, --verbose=<integer>        Verbosity (0,1,2)
>          This is the verbosity level (0=only errors and standard messages,
>          1=warnings, 2=debug)."
> 
>
>>
>>Is there any additional flag I can supply in method 1 to achieve the same level of message logging?
>>
>>
>>
>>Thank you in advance for your help.
>>
>>
>>Regards,
>>Peter
>>
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