[MPlayer-users] Mencoder script for recording TV

[Graeme Christie]

Shaun Glass wrote:

> <snip>
>  
> but when run by cron, channel is set, ca tell in /var/log/messages, 
> sound by default comes through the speakers, but no file is written.
>  
> Anybody got an idea?  
> **  

Does the user the crontab is for have write access to the file ? Have 
you tried cron as root ? Is the path set for crontab user ? Try hard 
coding the full path to mencoder.

Regards,

Graeme

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