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

[James J. Eaton]

Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> 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 ?

I don't want to shout too soon but I am trying it out and will let you
know after  several iterations. The problem, as I said, does not always
happen.

Thanks for the clue.
James