[MPlayer-users] mencoder -really-quiet

[Mark Guptill]

>>>> 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.
>> 
>> Thanks Reimar.  Can anyone confirm this or does anyone have an idea
>> for receiving only important messages on STDERR from mencoder?
>> 
>> - Grant
> 
> You could add "1>/dev/null" to the end of you command to make STDOUT go to /dev/null

You can ignore that. I just noticed that you said you are basically doing that already.