[MEncoder-users] Quiet output piping

[Nico Sabbi]

Bill Eldridge wrote:

>
> I'm trying to pipe the audio/video output from mencoder into
> another program, and am looking to turn off all error/warning messages
> from hitting stdout. I tried the typical 2>&/dev/null and someone's
> weird 3>&2  2>&1 etc. that I found on the list, with not very good
> luck. Is there a straightforward way to do this? (Yes, I've parsed the
> docs trying to find it).
>
> Thanks,
> Bill
>

there are still plenty of error messages sent to stdout, so don't keep
your hopes too high :(