[MPlayer-users] start recording automaticaly

[Adam Nielsen]

> I want to record a movie on a dvb stream.
> How to start encoding automaticaly at a precise time,
> when I'm not home ;-)

I use cron for that, so that I can "set-and-forget" shows I want to record 
regularly (i.e. every week.)  Since I'm not using any fancy programs to do 
the recording (only "dvbrecord") I just call a script from cron which starts 
the recording, sleeps for the duration of the show, and then kills dvbrecord.  
I'm sure there are far better ways of doing it, but this works very reliably 
for me, just so long as I keep enough free disk space available for the TV 
shows ;-)

Cheers,
Adam.