From: Antoine Cellerier <dionoea@videolan.org>
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 21:20:54 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Ugly hack to enable really quiet running of VLC.
X-Git-Tag: 1.1.0-pre1~781
X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?p=vlc;a=commitdiff_plain;h=3dd62c351d0f72a04634da26181b70b76f918755

Ugly hack to enable really quiet running of VLC.

Suppress VLC media player <version> message if --quiet is passed as
first argument. Feel free to revert if this is an issue.
---

diff --git a/bin/vlc.c b/bin/vlc.c
index f944aaeecf..8949fd5f60 100644
--- a/bin/vlc.c
+++ b/bin/vlc.c
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ extern char *FromLocale (const char *);
 #include <time.h>
 #include <pthread.h>
 #include <unistd.h>
+#include <string.h>
 
 /*****************************************************************************
  * main: parse command line, start interface and spawn threads.
@@ -54,7 +55,7 @@ extern char *FromLocale (const char *);
 int main( int i_argc, const char *ppsz_argv[] )
 {
 #ifdef __APPLE__
-    /* The so-called POSIX-compliant MacOS X is not. 
+    /* The so-called POSIX-compliant MacOS X is not.
      * SIGPIPE fires even when it is blocked in all threads! */
     signal (SIGPIPE, SIG_IGN);
 #endif
@@ -74,7 +75,8 @@ int main( int i_argc, const char *ppsz_argv[] )
 
 #ifndef __APPLE__
     /* This clutters OSX GUI error logs */
-    fprintf( stderr, "VLC media player %s\n", libvlc_get_version() );
+    if (i_argc > 1 && strcmp(ppsz_argv[1], "--quiet")) /* dirty hack to enable really quiet runing of vlc */
+        fprintf( stderr, "VLC media player %s\n", libvlc_get_version() );
 #endif
 
 #ifdef HAVE_PUTENV