[MEncoder-users] Unplayable flv movies

[Ade]

On Wed Aug 29 15:56 , ReimarDöffinger  
<Reimar.Doeffinger at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de> sent:

> On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 04:33:44PM +0100, Ade wrote:
> [...]
>> If you can shed anymore light on how those two files differ it would  
>> put my mind at ease. Also if you could point me at any analysis tools  
>> perhaps I can look myself to save you the trouble.
>
> You don't need an analysis tool, a text editor will do fine. The first
> file contained exactly the text I quoted! You managed to munge part of
> mencoders output into the file - and it obviously isn't playable then.
> Not to mention the security/privacy issues that would mean even if it
> did play...
>
Aha, thanks Reimar. I can see where it is all going wrong now.

I have been using a daemon process to fire off the shellscript and it  
looks as though mencoders stderr has been redirected into the output file.  
I guess the daemon has its file handles in a twist.

I have redirected stderr to /dev/null and now all is fine. Probably the  
root of my problems from day one. Groan.

Have a spotters badge! Many Thanks.

Ade.