[MEncoder-users] display only status bar

[Phil]

Alexey wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I wonder whether I can launch mencoder in a way that it only shows the
>statusbar. I use it in a script and if launch in normally it messes up
>the whole visual structure of the script. At the moment I pipe the
>output to /dev/null but the encoding process of a video takes up to 24h
>and I would like to see how far mencoder is.
>
>Regards
>
>Alexey
>
>  
>
Hello!

Did you think about smthg like this:
mencoder | grep "Pos:"

Phil