Less verbose mencoder but WITH status line

[darkpingu]

Hi all,

Is there any way to show, in a enconding process with mencoder, only the status line? (that is, the line that tells about percentage to complete, fps, ...)

The output of mencoder is too verbose and using -quiet or -really-quiet disables the status line.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

[darkpingu]

Hi again,

I've found a solution, which is far from be perfect, but for now, It is the only one. So more ideas will be appreciated

I have created a simple perl script:

binmode STDIN;
$line = '';
while (($n = read STDIN, $data, 1) != 0) {
$line .= $data;
if ($data eq "\n") {
$line = '';
} elsif ($data eq "\r") {
if ($line =~ m/^Pos.*fps\s*Trem.*\r$/) {
print $line;
$line = '';
}
}
}

The idea is to pipe mencoder output to this perl script:

mencoder -oac ... -ovc ... -o output.avi | cleanmencoder.exe

Since I was using windows I had to pack the perl script to exe first (PAR::Packer) in order to be able to pipe mencoder output.

[element333]

An old post but the point it makes is perfectly valid. Why does mencoder spit out tons of lines, which scroll by too fast to be read? Yes, I can turn down verbosity with "-quiet" or "-really-quiet", but then I don't get the estimated file size and time. Why not print out a single, constantly updated status line with file size and time? Many DOS programs worked like this (defragmenters, disk checkers, etc). Unfortunately, I couldn't get the above Perl solution to work: I couldn't get dname for Win to compile PAR-Packer. If anyone knows of another solution (cygwin/awk perhaps), please let me know. If mencoder developers read this, give this issue some thought.