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

[Fabien Wernli]

On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 10:19:37PM +0200, Ulrich Schweitzer wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 October 2004 15:29, Fabien Wernli wrote:
> 
> > mplayer whatever
> > echo pkill mplayer | at now + 50 min
> 
> ...will kill all instances of mplayer running at the time. This might not 
> be what you want.

sure - what I meant was a gross example

You can put the PID in the kill command or use

pkill -f "mplayer whatever"