mencoder error messages

[fvfv]

I guess stattik might be able to help me with this, but I do not know how to post this specifically in his sub-forum.

I use stattik transcode script to convert mpg2 ATSC HD recordings to divx. It has worked extremely well in the past.

Due probably to errors on the stream or may be the BDA multiplexer that I use (ATI Mpeg Mux), there are cases where mencoder fails and the scripts hangs with a windows message error box. The script runs at night but due to the error it waits for some one to close the error message before continuing.

What this does is that if the script needs to run for 4 or 5 recordings , the system's memory is exhausted and the other recordings do not process or break the original recording.

Is there any way to tell mencoder to run "QUIET", like so many linux scripts that you add to the command line "--quiet" and the error messages are not displayed ?

I know that the script responds very well to %ERROR% variables if mencoder encounters an error, but due to that window error message, sometimes my recordings do not get transcoded and even worst, when I close the error message the script continues to the end deleting the original recording and now I have nothing.

[-stattik-]

Hi fvfv,

I'm not aware of any mencoder option to run "quiet" especially if it throws an error out of DOS. What is the error you're getting? Have you tried different versions of mencoder?

[fvfv]

It is one of those Eloquent Error messages from Windows OS

Application has performed and illegal action and needs to be shut down .

On the toolbar I get a popup saying the system is about to exhaust physical memory. I have about 1gig of RAM.

I am gonna try to download the latest mplayer/mencoder. Any version that you recommend ?

[-stattik-]

There's really only one place with recent builds. I would try here.

http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer-win32.php

You can choose a processor-specific version or get the RTM version which works on all processors.