[MPlayer-users] stopping a dumpstream after a specified amount of time

[james houston]

I want to use the Linux mplayer's dumpstream option to
capture an online radio station, but it needs to stop
after a specified amount of time (when the radio
program is over).

So I want a command like this:
mplayer -quiet -dumpstream -dumpfile /test.mp3
-playlist http://64.236.34.67:80/stream/8018

The problem is that once you issue the command it
captures the audio indefinitely, or at least until you
issue a ctrl-c command. But I want it to stop without
user interaction. As far as I know the only way to do
this would be to check the PID and kill the process
after a certain amount of time. This seems like a
clunky way to do it. Does anyone know how you might do
it more elegantly using the slave mode in mplayer?

Thanks




		
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