[MPlayer-users] mencoder -really-quiet

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 11:53:43AM -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.
> 
> Thanks Reimar.  Can anyone confirm this or does anyone have an idea
> for receiving only important messages on STDERR from mencoder?

Try -msglevel all=1 instead, it should suppress all but errors.
With one exception: anything wrong in the configuration files or
command line will ignore it and be printed even if it is just a warning.