[MPlayer-users] mplayer and cron

[Ambrosius Nihilo]

Here is something odd I'd like to ask about. I am only an end user of 
mplayer and don't know much about it. One thing it used to do very well for 
me is record Austrian public radio at a certain time schedule. All I had to 
do was to put the following two lines in my crontab:

43 14 21 12 * /usr/bin/mplayer -noframedrop -dumpfile /directory/test.ram 
-dumpstream mms://stream4.orf.at/oe1-wort
44 14 21 12 * killall mplayer

And I'd have the broadcast recorded in test.ram. A couple weeks ago, 
however, it started no longer working. The output file was always only ten 
seconds long as if an invisible hand stopped mplayer 10 seconds after it 
started recording. I tried the command

/usr/bin/mplayer -noframedrop -dumpfile /directory/test.ram -dumpstream 
mms://stream4.orf.at/oe1-wort

on the command line by hand and it worked without a problem (longer than ten 
seconds until I killed it by hand).

Are there any diagnostic tests or solutions you can suggest?

--evaristegalois

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