Dear all, I found this nifty article on how to record your favourite radio show using cron and mplayer: http://grimthing.com/archives/2004/05/20/recording-streaming-audio-with-mplayer/
Because I couldn't get the date in the filename (and was too lazy to look into sh/bash manuals), I decided to use Python. It was a good choice, because I decided to improve the timer - learning some more Python along the way! So, the idea is: - cron runs the script at a specific time - the script starts mplayer, and will keep checking the clock until it's time to kill mplayer - after mplayer has exited, oggenc is started to turn the raw WAV into ogg - and finally the remaining WAV is deleted This basic setting is quite easy, and I used os.spawnvp(os.P_WAIT,...), along with another CRON entry to kill mplayer. But then I got more ambitious: I wanted the script to keep checking if mplayer was alive - in case the connection goes down. Moreover, I would rather have the script stop mplayer than cron. At this point, I thought I should get some professional help... :) What is the right way to go? Would threads be overkill? If so, where can I go about looking for process control/management without delving into complex daemon architectures? So, rather than asking for code, I'm looking for guidance - this is a didactic experience! Cheers, Renato -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
