[MPlayer-users] mplayer works from command line but not from cron

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Thursday, 26 April 2007 at 00:21, James J. Eaton wrote:
> 
> The Background
> I am trying to record a real player stream. The stream is not live, just
> a 30 minute recording. I set this up to be done once a week after the
> new recording is made available on the website. To do this I have
> written a script which I call from cron at the appropriate time.
> 
> The Problem.
> Sometimes, and not everytime, when cron runs the script mplayer aborts
> about 10 seconds after it starts. I get the following messages

Have you tried -noconsolecontrols ?

Regards,
R.

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