Bug#752604: xbmc: better logging with timestamps

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

Package: xbmc
Version: 2:13.1~rc1+dfsg1-1
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

The standard logging of xbmc is as below:

10:00:12 T:139680256784704 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player)::Put MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
10:00:12 T:139678022878976  NOTICE: Thread DVDPlayer start, auto delete: false
10:00:12 T:139678022878976  NOTICE: Creating InputStream
10:00:12 T:139678022878976  NOTICE: Creating Demuxer
10:00:12 T:139678022878976  NOTICE: Opening video stream: 0 source: 256
10:00:12 T:139678022878976  NOTICE: Creating video codec with codec id: 28
10:00:12 T:139678022878976  NOTICE: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg::Open() Using codec: H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 AVC / MPEG-4 part 10
10:00:12 T:139678022878976  NOTICE: Creating video thread
10:00:12 T:139678126180096  NOTICE: Thread DVDPlayerVideo start, auto delete: false
10:00:12 T:139678126180096  NOTICE: running thread: video_thread
10:00:12 T:139678022878976  NOTICE: Opening audio stream: 1 source: 256
10:00:12 T:139678022878976  NOTICE: Finding audio codec for: 86018
10:00:12 T:139678022878976  NOTICE: Creating audio thread
10:00:12 T:139678140798720  NOTICE: Thread DVDPlayerAudio start, auto delete: false
10:00:12 T:139678140798720  NOTICE: running thread: CDVDPlayerAudio::Process()
10:00:12 T:139678022878976  NOTICE: Opening Subtitle stream: 0 source: 1024
10:00:12 T:139678140798720  NOTICE: Creating audio stream (codec id: 86018, channels: 2, sample rate: 44100, no pass-through)
10:00:12 T:139678126180096  NOTICE:  fps: 23.976024, pwidth: 1280, pheight: 544, dwidth: 1280, dheight: 544
10:00:12 T:139678126180096  NOTICE: Display resolution USER : VGA1: 1920x1080 @ 60.00Hz (27)
10:00:12 T:139680256784704  NOTICE: Using GL_TEXTURE_2D
10:00:12 T:139680256784704  NOTICE: GL: Selecting Single Pass YUV 2 RGB shader
10:00:13 T:139680256784704  NOTICE: GL: NPOT texture support detected
10:00:13 T:139680256784704  NOTICE: GL: Using GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object
10:01:43 T:139678039664384  NOTICE: Thread BackgroundLoader start, auto delete: false
10:01:43 T:139678087841536  NOTICE: Thread JobWorker start, auto delete: true
10:02:47 T:139678283941632  NOTICE: ES: Client  from 192.168.1.13 timed out


This logging is useless when xbmc is something which is run round the clock. It does not log the timestamps

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IN, LC_CTYPE=en_IN (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages xbmc depends on:
ii  fonts-dejavu-core  2.34-1
ii  fonts-roboto       1:4.3-3
ii  libjs-iscroll      5.1.1+dfsg1-2
ii  libjs-jquery       1.7.2+dfsg-3
ii  mesa-utils         8.1.0-2+b1
ii  python-imaging     2.4.0-2
pn  python:any         <none>
ii  ttf-dejavu-core    2.34-1
ii  x11-utils          7.7+1
ii  xbmc-bin           2:13.1~rc1+dfsg1-1

xbmc recommends no packages.

xbmc suggests no packages.

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