schedule script strategies?

[Joe Auty]

Thanks to your help, I now have video capture ability on my FreeBSD  
machine!


Before I dive into scripting my recordings, I was wondering if you  
guys had some general suggestions?

What I need to do is start recording (cat /dev/cxm0 > myfile.mpg) at  
a certain time, stop recording at a certain time, include the date  
stamp in the filename, and preferably pipe the file to something like  
ffmpeg to compress it to a format that will take less disk space.

Any suggestions as to what I ought to check out?






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Joe Auty
NetMusician: web publishing software for musicians
http://www.netmusician.org
joe at netmusician.org