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 different video files into > >>dvd format *.mpg files. > >> > >>Anybody know how to call in just the routine without any unnecessary > >>mplayer stuff? > >> > > > >ummm.... mencoder is a command-line program. just figure out your > >options and use it like any other cli tool. it should "just work" > > > > > Hi Andrew > > 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 > > I'm wondering if I need to explicitly set my path in the script file in > order to call this function.
oh yeah, probably. > > A
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