[MPlayer-users] getting framerate from a file....

[Diego Biurrun]

GD Lewis writes:
 > 2) The messages that are displayed by mplayer/mencoder do not appear to be 
 > written to either stdout or stderr, so I am unable to pipe the output to a 
 > file for future processing.  Am I doing something wrong here or is there 
 > something that I should know?

Standard Unix stuff.  You need to redirect stdout and stderr to the
same place.  Try

     mplayer movie.avi &> output.txt

Diego