On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 07:34:35 -0800, CptDpondo wrote:
> Note that it's using \r instead of \n for line breaks; that's to > overwrite the status line without scrolling the screen. this works fine > when displaying on a terminal. > > I'm trying to reduce this to where it only prints the status line if it > gets a Skipped frame warning, so the above would look like this: > > Pos: 0.7s 22f ( 0%) 0.00fps Trem: 2min 15mb A-V:0.070 [0:180] > Skipping frame! > ..... I haven't tested this: Have you tried the '-quiet' option? >From the mencoder manpage: -quiet Make console output less verbose; in particular, prevents the status line (i.e. A: 0.7 V: 0.6 A-V: 0.068 ...) from being displayed. Particularly useful on slow terminals or broken ones which do not properly handle carriage return (i.e. \r).