[MPlayer-users] How to pause mencoder

[marcogi at email.it]

On Thu, 25 Dec 2003, Adam Nielsen wrote:

> > Finally, there is at least two good reasons to suspend mencoder :)
>
> But of course, since pressing Ctrl+Z and later typing "fg" seems to work
> perfectly, there's not really any reason to add this feature to mencoder.

Sure. I'm not requiring such a feature, just I answered to Nicolas
asking why someone should stop mencoder.

ctrl-z and fg is comfortable enough for interactive session. And:

kill -STOP mencoder_pid
mencoder tv://channel -blaopt blabla
kill -CONT mencoder_pid

do the job for automated tv grabs.
We are un*x users right? ;)

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Regards,
Marco Gigante