[MEncoder-users] Cancel stream dumping

[The Wanderer]

On 02/05/2010 03:40 AM, double wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Is there a chance to cancel the stream-dumping after a certain
> time/filesize (anything would be fine).
> 
> What I tried so far:
> 
> mplayer -endpos 10 -dumpstream -dumpfile /tmp/dump.stream 
> mms://a362.l5233454361.c52334.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/362/52334/v0001/reflector:54361
> 
> With this comandline mplayer runs forever.

AIUI, -dumpstream overrides almost all other options, and says "create
an exact duplicate of the input stream"; obviously an exact duplicate
can't be truncated.

If I were approaching this kind of problem, I'd probably use something
like 'at' (or maybe even a "sleep X", or a script which checks filesize
in a loop, or the like), and have it kill the process when the specified
condition is hit.

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