I've got a semi-automatic script that helps me with mencoder. It's based on zenity, a sort of x-dialog clone. I've been struggling with getting the output of mencoder to make sense to zenity. Basically, mencoder outputs a status line about 10 times / sec. Those lines are separated by a \r, so they overwrite on the screen. Ideally I'd like to filter this two ways: 1. 1 status line posted every minute, to show it's still alive. 2. A status line posted for every 'Skipping frame' or 'Duplicate frame' message. I've been struggling with this and I can't get it to work; something always screws up. No combination of mencoder ... 2>&1 | tr '\r' '\n' | grep -v '^Pos' or mencoder ... 2>&1 | sed -e s/\r/\n\r/g | grep -v '^Pos' seems to do the trick. -- If you have eight hours to chop down a tree spend six sharpening your axe. --Abraham Lincoln
