[MPlayer-users] Mplayer Stream to *.wav

[Saurabh Singhvi]

On 5/4/07, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <dominik at rangers.eu.org> wrote:
>
> On Friday, 04 May 2007 at 11:12, "Thomas  Röhm" wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I´d like to record a mplayer stream to *.wav or *.mp3 on harddisk like:
> >
> > mplayer -ao pcm:file=/temp/%date%.wav http://xxxxxx.xxxx
> >
> > Is it possible to limit the length of the file to e.g. 10 minutes and
> > name the file by date_time.wav and then to create a new file with a
> > continued stream?
>
> Yes.
>
> man mplayer
> /endpos
>
> Regards,
> R.
>
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you could write a shell script that sends CTRL+C every 10mins
and renames the file and starts another instance of mplayer with
the same command and so on..

I am not sure if you can do it with just some options of mplayer
itself.

hth,
Saurabh