mplayer -msglevel all=-1 doesn't make it completely silent!

Question

I'm trying to open mplayer to play video without any terminal output using this:

mplayer -msglevel all=-1 /path/to/video

also:

mplayer -really-quiet /path/to/video

but it doesn't make it completely silent! and these are printed to output:

[flv @ 0x9a5d100]Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate
[ass] Init
[ass] Updating font cache

How can I make mplayer completely silent?

Thanks

Answer 1

Try this: mplayer file > /dev/null 2>&1

Answer 2

Bash 4 : mplayer file &> /dev/null

Answer 3

try this alias

alias mplay="mplayer !:1 2>/dev/null"

you can then use to the normal mplayer arguments as well, like

mplay -playlist myplaylist

Answer 4

Supposedly, this is what the MPLAYER_VERBOSE environment variable is for. Set it to -5, no messages.

I don't think it actually works right though. In particular, setting the "fixme" msglevel disables some stuff, and probably results in unwanted output. Setting it back to 5 on the command line may fix that.