[MPlayer-users] Re: feature request? killing other processes using resources

[Chris Phillips]

> > Does anyone else think it would be beneficial to be able to get mplayer or 
> > mencoder to try to kill any programs using resources that would otherwise 
> > make the program fail? Inparticular i'm thinking about a TV card... I've a 
> > script that sets a cron job to record from tv. But if Xawtv is on or such 
> > like then the system will obviously fail. Any chance of adding the same 
> > functionality of an "fuser -k /dev/video0" as an additional option?
> 
> Never. Add this to your script or to the cronjob. 

thought not. I've been trying to suss out how to use a perl command to set 
a command through "at" and I can't suss it out, all the escaped " marks 
get used up and removed before they need to be etc... ahh well.

chris
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