Jorge F?bregas wrote: > On Sunday 30 November 2008 10:14:39 am The Wanderer wrote: > >> "output to stdout" has been a wanted feature for a very long time >> now. > > Thanks for the tip. I'm just curious...If regular non-error text > output is sent (now) to stdout ... If you replace the behaviour of it > (to replace it with video data)...then what would happen with the > regular output? Is it then redirected to stederr? My understanding was that it already is, but looking at the source code, it appears to depend on the priority level of the message - anything more important than MSGL_HINT is printed to stderr, anything else to stdout. Presumably outputting video to stdout would also turn off any messages which would be printed at a 'stdout level', but I don't see any code for that... Reimar, since you say it works, do you happen to know how that problem is dealt with? Is there something obvious I'm missing? (I do also see a startling number of printf() calls in the source, no few of them in places which look like they would get called... most of them are in imported libraries or the like, which there's reason not to change, but it seems to me that it would still cause problems.) -- The Wanderer Warning: Simply because I argue an issue does not mean I agree with any side of it. Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny.