[MPlayer-users] recording radio with cron

[Stefan Sassenberg]

Hi Kevin,

Kevin Sookocheff wrote:
> Hey everyone,
> 
> 	I apologise if this topic has been covered before but I've searched through 
> the archives and haven't hit pay-dirt yet.  Anyways, I'm trying to schedule 
> mplayer to record internet radio at a specific time using cron.  The script 
> I've written works wonderfully when I run it myself but when cron runs it 
> nothing happens.  Here is the script:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> # I've tried this with and without quotes
> stream="$1" 
> outfile=$2
> length=$3
> 
> mplayer -noconsolecontrols -dumpaudio -dumpfile ${outfile} ${stream} 
> < /dev/null > /dev/null 2>&1 &
> 
If you don't pipe the output to /dev/null but to /some/file you might 
get error messages from /some/file.

For testing I recommend the command

$ at now

Regards

Stefan