[MEncoder-users] Quiet output piping

[Stefan Sassenberg]

Hello Bill,

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

It's not only to supress any other messages going to stdout/stderr but 
also to get mencoder to put the video data to stdout. I didn't get that 
working yet. It is possible, I heard, to read mplayer's input from 
stdin, but as for mencoder I have no success.

Regards

Stefan