Re: Anyone know how to do a "timed program" with mplayer?

From: Hugo Vanwoerkom (hvw59601_at_care2.com)
Date: 10/18/05

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Date:  Tue, 18 Oct 2005 07:51:40 -0500

    Adam Funk wrote:
    > I can listen to a continuously ogg-streaming radio station with this
    > command:
    >
    > mplayer http://engine.collegemedia.vt.edu:8000/wuvt.ogg
    >
    > and I've successfully recorded (using scripts and at) fixed-duration
    > RealPlayer radio shows to .wav to listen to them later. But I'd like to
    > record a specific show tonight from the continuous live ogg stream.
    >
    > I suppose I could set up an at job to start recording at 18:30 and another
    > to "killall mplayer" at 20:00, but I think that might cause problems (and
    > it's hideously inelegant).
    >

    I've done just that to listen to KUSC at 2AM and stop at 5AM.

    But I did it with two commands I implemented with Qt: do_sm and do_km.

    Crontab starts do_sm at 2AM and it spawns mplayer to record.

    Crontab starts do_km at 5AM and it finds the record with the PID of
    do_sm and kills it with a TERM, which mplayer gets and terminates.

    Very elegant, but only because I did it that way of course ;-)

    If you want I can send you the code but don't respond to the from
    address but to hugovanwoerkom at yahoo dot com. Care2 is the pits.

    This prompts the question again: can you list and record at the same
    time with mplayer?

    H 

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