[MEncoder-users] Quiet output piping

[Bill Eldridge]

Stefan Sassenberg wrote:

> Nico Sabbi wrote:
>
>> Stefan Sassenberg wrote:
>>
>>> Hello 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
>>>
>> -o /dev/stdout would work, if only stdout were usable
>>
> Oh, thank you. Didn't know it's so simple :-)
> I am interested in using stdout. Is anyone here to take it as a 
> feature request?


Unfortunately, it's not so simple - there's plenty of garbage
messages written to stdout that's not audio/video. But probably
going through to suppress all comments with a -quiet switch
wouldn't be that tough.