Re: [SOLVED] Re: Importing mencoder into a bash script

2007-07-03 Thread Bob Proulx
andy wrote: > I owe you each an apology for wasting your time. After I had reinstalled > my system I was convinced that I had installed it as part of the mplayer > package. However, running Bob's scriptlet demonstrated that I hadn't > done so, and so I have now fixed that problem which now fixes

Re: Importing mencoder into a bash script

2007-07-03 Thread Bob McGowan
andy wrote: Bob McGowan wrote: andy wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 09:10:45PM +0100, andy wrote: Hey folks I'm lazy and want to call the mencoder routine from mplayer into a Thanks Bob for thinking through the problem I presented, as well as f

Re: Importing mencoder into a bash script

2007-07-03 Thread andy
Bob McGowan wrote: andy wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 09:10:45PM +0100, andy wrote: Hey folks I'm lazy and want to call the mencoder routine from mplayer into a bash script I'm writing to automatically convert different video files into dvd format *.mpg files

Re: Importing mencoder into a bash script

2007-07-03 Thread Bob McGowan
andy wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 09:10:45PM +0100, andy wrote: Hey folks I'm lazy and want to call the mencoder routine from mplayer into a bash script I'm writing to automatically convert different video files into dvd format *.mpg files. Anybody know how

[SOLVED] Re: Importing mencoder into a bash script

2007-07-03 Thread andy
Bob Proulx wrote: andy wrote: No - it is definitely installed - I've used it on the cli plenty of times. I am interested in finding out how I am to call it from within a bash script, because simply putting mencoder in the bash script isn't working. Hmm... Okay. Then let's debug w

Re: Importing mencoder into a bash script

2007-07-03 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 07:23:12 +0100, andy wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: >> andy wrote: >> >>> mencoder: command not found >>> >>> I'm wondering if I need to explicitly set my path in the script file in >>> order to call this function. >> >> Uhm, mencoder, when installed, lives in /usr/bin/menco

Re: Importing mencoder into a bash script

2007-07-03 Thread Bob Proulx
andy wrote: > No - it is definitely installed - I've used it on the cli plenty of > times. I am interested in finding out how I am to call it from within a > bash script, because simply putting mencoder in the > bash script isn't working. Hmm... Okay. Then let's debug why. Try this scriptl

Re: Importing mencoder into a bash script

2007-07-02 Thread andy
Justin Hartman wrote: On 7/2/07, andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yeah, it is a cli tool and I have traditionally used it as such at the vt and just entered it directly. However, in a shell script I have tried to do that but get the error message: mencoder: command not found You have to explic

Re: Importing mencoder into a bash script

2007-07-02 Thread andy
Bob Proulx wrote: andy wrote: mencoder: command not found I'm wondering if I need to explicitly set my path in the script file in order to call this function. Uhm, mencoder, when installed, lives in /usr/bin/mencoder. Perhaps you have not installed it? dpkg -l mencoder sudo ap

Re: Importing mencoder into a bash script

2007-07-02 Thread Bob Proulx
andy wrote: > mencoder: command not found > > I'm wondering if I need to explicitly set my path in the script file in > order to call this function. Uhm, mencoder, when installed, lives in /usr/bin/mencoder. Perhaps you have not installed it? dpkg -l mencoder sudo apt-get install mencoder

Re: Importing mencoder into a bash script

2007-07-02 Thread Justin Hartman
On 7/2/07, andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yeah, it is a cli tool and I have traditionally used it as such at the vt and just entered it directly. However, in a shell script I have tried to do that but get the error message: mencoder: command not found You have to explicitly set the path to me

Re: Importing mencoder into a bash script

2007-07-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 09:37:27PM +0100, andy wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 09:10:45PM +0100, andy wrote: > > > >>Hey folks > >> > >>I'm lazy and want to call the mencoder routine from mplayer into a bash > >>script I'm writing to automatically convert differe

Re: Importing mencoder into a bash script

2007-07-02 Thread Justin Hartman
On 7/2/07, andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yeah, it is a cli tool and I have traditionally used it as such at the vt and just entered it directly. However, in a shell script I have tried to do that but get the error message: mencoder: command not found You have to explicitly set the path to me

Re: Importing mencoder into a bash script

2007-07-02 Thread andy
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 09:10:45PM +0100, andy wrote: Hey folks I'm lazy and want to call the mencoder routine from mplayer into a bash script I'm writing to automatically convert different video files into dvd format *.mpg files. Anybody know how to call in

Re: Importing mencoder into a bash script

2007-07-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 09:10:45PM +0100, andy wrote: > Hey folks > > I'm lazy and want to call the mencoder routine from mplayer into a bash > script I'm writing to automatically convert different video files into > dvd format *.mpg files. > > Anybody know how to call in just the routine witho