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

[Hugo González Monteverde]

Yes, you can open MPlayer in a pipe and send it the "quit" command, 
after sleeping. In Python, I'd do:

filep = popen("mplayer whatever",  "w") #pipe set to read your commands
sleep (number of seconds you want to capture)
filep.write("quit")
filep.flush()
filep.close()

Anyone suggest how to say this in SH???

Hugo

james houston wrote:
> 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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