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

[Ulrich Schweitzer]

On Tuesday 19 October 2004 05:26, 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).

I'd suggest doing something like that from a script:

LENGTH="60m" # or whatever time you need

mplayer -quiet -dumpstream -dumpfile /test.mp3 -playlist \ 
http://64.236.34.67:80/stream/8018&
echo $! >~/.mplayer-dumpstream.pid
sleep $LENGTH && kill `cat ~/.mplayer-dumpstream.pid`
rm ~/.mplayer-dumpstream.pid

Ulrich
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