[MPlayer-users] mencoder & cron

[drwhat]

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On Sunday 27 April 2003 08:33 am, Attila Kinali wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Thu, 24 Apr 2003 23:25:36 -0700
>
> drwhat <drwhat at ncplus.net> wrote:
> > now.. my question.. I have been trying to setup a pvr using mencoder, but
> > have run into a problem with crontab and mencoder... when ever I try to
> > setup a scheduled recording via cron... mencoder runs for about 3
> > seconds.. then dies.. no error messages anywhere :/
>
> If mencoder realy doesnt give any msg (which i cant believe) use
> strace.
>

well... it(mencoder) doesn't give any msgs about it dieing... I did do an 
strace.. got lots of junk I don't know how to interput, but it did show:

13350 22:35:02 write(1, "Pos:   0.6s     18f ( 0%)   0fps"..., 69) = -1 EPIPE 
(Broken pipe)

the script that I am using is:

mencoder -tv 
on:driver=v4l:input=1:norm=NTSC:chanlist=us-broadcast:channel=3:width=720:height=480:audiorate=48000:buffersize=44 
- -ovc lavc -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=128 -lavcopts 
vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=2000:v4mv -vop pp=lb -o $1 -endpos $2

my cron job setup for it is:

35 22 * * * /home/drwhat/bin/vcr "test.avi 00:05:00"
- -- 
*******#######$$$$$$$$@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
Linux user #:265953
os:mandake v9.1/winME	cpu:amd duron 1.2G
mobo:asus a7v133		mem:256M
cdr:LG-8080B			nic:netgear fa311
graphics:nvidia geforce3 ti200 64m ddr
hda:FUJITSU MPA3017AT, 1.7G
hdb: WESTERN DIGITAL WD1200BB-00CAA1, 120G
sound:ensoniq creative audiopci/es1370
videocapture:Hauppauge WinTV GO 190

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