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 <options> <file> in the
bash script isn't working.
Hmm... Okay. Then let's debug why. Try this scriptlet:
#!/bin/sh
ls -ld /usr/bin/mencoder
type mencoder
echo PATH=$PATH
dpkg -l mencoder | grep mencoder
dpkg -L mencoder | grep /bin/
exit 0
What does it say? On one of my Etch systems it says:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4107292 2007-06-19 00:42 /usr/bin/mencoder
mencoder is /usr/bin/mencoder
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games
ii mencoder 1.0-pre7-0.0 MPlayer's Movie Encoder
/usr/bin/mencoder
My guess is that on your system it is installed someplace special and
so is in your PATH when called from your shell but not on PATH when
you are trying to run the script.
Bob