[MPlayer-users] -quiet for mencoder

[Chris Phillips]

Quoting Ben Buxton <bb at cactii.net>:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi at kde.org> uttered the following thing:
> > 
> > the sole effect of -quiet is to disable the progress info/statistics
> > during encoding. you can imagine, that such info is not exactly useful
> > when the output is redirected to a file (like in my videorecorder script
> > - i attached it (including supplementary files) in case somebody is 
> > interested).
> 
> Hear hear! I for one would support including a -quiet flag in
> mencoder. Perhaps this would be better though with two
> options, -quiet and -quieter (or -silent). The first would
> give very simple information (primarily to indicate what
> it did and how successful it was), and the second would
> give totally silent output.
> 
> I'm sick of seeing 6+ megs of output emailed to me from
> cron.

sorry, but why not just write a good cronjob in the first place? if you're
automating it to the extent then surely you shouldn't have a problem with
parsing and rejecting some output?

> -- 
> Ben Buxton - Random Network Person
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