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 -- Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
