[MEncoder-users] crswallow: A filter to reduce the amount of progress lines (e.g. by mencoder)

[Seven Of29]

mencoder users might be interested:
http://code.google.com/p/crswallow/

This software is a text filter for Linux/Unix environments. It
processes text lines passed in from stdin and forwards most of them to
stdout/stderr.

Text lines which contain the carriage return character (cr) are often
used by software to print progress information on a text console. They
repeatedly update a single line on screen with the latest status. One
example of such a software is the video encoding software mencoder.

Some tools update the status very often, e.g. mencoder may do so
several hundred times per second. Such output can be very disturbing
when running software over a remote terminal connection with low
bandwidth. Completely filtering such output is often not an opttion
for jobs running over an extended period of time, because a limited
amount of progress information is still desirable.

The crswallow filter can limit status output to a single update in a
given time interval, for example once per second.

Regards