[MPlayer-users] Mplayer and cron

[The Wanderer]

Bill Moseley wrote:

> I want to capture a few minutes of a stream using cron.  I'm
> wondering what the best method is.

> I though about doing this in cron, but I can't seem to get it to
> work:
> 
> mplayer [...] & sleep 1h; killall mplayer
> 
> mplayer doesn't seem to work in the background, although I can ^Z and
> then run in the background (bg).

AFAIK from previous discussion, this is because mplayer reads stdin for
command input and can't proceed until it gets either something or
nothing. If you redirect stdin from /dev/null it should IIRC work fine.

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