[MPlayer-users] supression of the console output

[Corey Hickey]

Gerhard P.Herbig wrote:
> Hi
> 
> is there any possibility to supress the console output after starting
> the mplayer? I use for example:
> 
> mplayer -really-quiet -fs sample.avi > nul
> 
> but before the movie starts, you see for a moment (some fractions
> of a second) the output console. This is very annoying for using
> the mplayer in a theater. (I intend to use the mplayer for our
> next photo/video meeting at the DGS, www.stereoskopie.org).
> 
> I'm searching for an option like "-noconsole" or "-minimize_console"
> or similar, but I didn't found any. Do you have any hint for me?

MPlayer usually spits out a few messages to stderr. I get the idea 
you're using Windows, which, I think, handles redirection correctly. Either:
... &> nul
-or-
... > nul 2>&1

Does that answer your question?

-Corey