Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] avcodec/vlc: Reduce debug logging

[Soft Works <softworkz-at-hotmail.com@ffmpeg.org>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ffmpeg-devel <ffmpeg-devel-bounces@ffmpeg.org> On Behalf Of
> Michael Niedermayer
> Sent: Freitag, 14. März 2025 01:28
> To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches <ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org>
> Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] avcodec/vlc: Reduce debug logging
> 
> Hi
> 
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2025 at 03:48:20AM +0000, softworkz wrote:
> > From: softworkz <softworkz@hotmail.com>
> >
> > Signed-off-by: softworkz <softworkz@hotmail.com>
> > ---
> >     avcodec/vlc: Reduce debug logging
> >
> >     It made it hardly possible to enable debug logging for viewing
> other log
> >     lines due to the excessive output created by this.
> >
> > Published-As: https://github.com/ffstaging/FFmpeg/releases/tag/pr-
> ffstaging-60%2Fsoftworkz%2Fsubmit_vlclogging-v1
> > Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/ffstaging/FFmpeg pr-
> ffstaging-60/softworkz/submit_vlclogging-v1
> > Pull-Request: https://github.com/ffstaging/FFmpeg/pull/60
> >
> >  libavcodec/vlc.c | 4 ++--
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> will apply

Thanks!


> btw, speaking of excessive output,
> valgrind_backtrace (which is enabled by default when optimizations are
> disabled)

Only when you have it installed I suppose..? 
For me, it's 0 in config.h even after ./configure --disable-optimizations


> is also a feature that is rarely useful but very annoying noise wise
> (just saying in case anyone wants to reduce noise in general)

Might make sense to require it to enable explicitly.


What I meant by excessive in that case is that it exhausted the console buffer so that I couldn't even scroll back to ffmpeg startup and it took several seconds to react to break (q was hardly working at all), so it was an extreme case.

Thank you
sw



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