[MPlayer-users] Problem with first pass and temporal "video"

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 02:25:30PM -0700, Loren Merritt wrote:
> On Fri, 21 May 2004, Webmaster wrote:
> 
> > I'm using the mencoder (win32 version)in 2pass mode with MPEG2 but the
> > file i get after the first pass is huge (>4gb) and i'd like to know if
> > there's an option to disable this temporal file and to only make the
> > stats file.
> 
> mencoder -o /dev/null ...
> This should work if you build MPlayer under Cygwin, though it doesn't work
> in the MinGW build.

Try mencoder -o NUL: (oldschool DOS ;).

Rich