[MPlayer-users] -dumpstream with duration?

[Tomáš Janoušek]

Hi,

Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 10:33:03AM -0800  Bryan Field-Elliot napsal:
> We'd like to use mplayer to dump a video stream for a specified number
> of seconds (i.e. 15 seconds), and then exit. I have not found a way to
> do this yet, dumpstream will by default keep on dumping until the stream
> ends. Is there a command-line option I missed somewhere?

I think mplayer can't and probably should be able to do it.

I use a script like this:


#!/bin/bash

TIME=$1
shift

"$@" &
PID=$!
sleep $TIME
kill $PID
wait



and then "runfor 15 mplayer -dumpstream ..."


-- 
Tomáš Janoušek, a.k.a. Liskni_si, http://work.lisk.in/