How can I use mencoder without GUI?

[leiming2006]

I have try "mencoder /?" "mencoder /h" "mencoder -h" "mencoder ?" "mencoder -?" but none of them offers me a help.

[celtic_druid]

There is no such help option. It would generate way to much info. You can do mencoder -ovc help, -oac help -vf help, -of help, etc. Even some encoders offer there own help, like -lameopts help lists lame encoding commands.

Probably easier to read the docs though.

[foxyshadis]

I believe the main docs (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/index.html) is the only documentation (esp. chap 12 & 13), along with the man page hellfred links below; the best you can get out of the exe is a list of what codecs/parsers it was compiled with.

[edit: oops! I was looking for that man page...]

[hellfred]

@foxyshadis
You linked the (very useful) documentation of mplayer and mencoder, not the manpage. There is a manpage, too, which gives you a full list of possible options and their use, for improving the command lines you learn when reading the documentation. So have a look at the real manpage (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1.html), too.

Hellfred