Re: Anyone know how to do a "timed program" with mplayer?

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Adam Funk wrote:
> On Monday 17 October 2005 17:50, Oliver Lupton wrote:
>
>
> > I guess this isn't the neatest either, but how about using mplayer's
> > slave mode (-slave), so it reads for commands from stdin. And have a
> > simple script which sleeps for 1:30 and then prints whatever mplayer's
> > stop command is to mplayer?
>
>
> Interesting, thanks.
>
>
> > As I said it's not the neatest, but it's neater than killall mplayer
> > :)
>
>
> Actually, a friend sent me a link to this site
>
>   http://osl.iu.edu/~tveldhui/radio/
>   "Linux Radio Timeshift HOWTO"
>
> which includes the following slightly more sophisticated version of
> killall in a sample script.
>
> vsound realplay http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/... &
> VSOUND_PID=$!
> sleep 3660
> kill `ps | grep realplay | awk '{ print $1 }'`
>
> # Wait for vsound to terminate, creating vsound.wav
> wait $VSOUND_PID

But there is a big difference between realplay and mplayer. Mplayer has 
much cleaner sound. With vsound you get sound AND recording, can you do 
that with mplayer?

H