[MPlayer-users] mencoder -really-quiet

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 01:42:16PM -0800, Grant wrote:
> I'm using mencoder in a crontab with > /dev/null so I'm only emailed
> about STDERR.  I added -quiet and I still receive messages like this:
> 
> Could not determine number of frames (for absolute seek).
> 
> I'm going to try -really-quiet, but will that suppress any important
> messages such as failure of the command?

Yes, I think so.
However failures should also be indicated by the return value, so I think
cron should still notice them, even if you won't get the error message,
in case that helps.