schedule script strategies?
Steve O'Hara-Smith
steve at sohara.org
Fri Apr 14 07:39:32 UTC 2006
On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 23:33:18 -0400
Joe Auty <joe at netmusician.org> wrote:
> 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
You can use at to start the recording.
> 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.
ffmpeg -i /dev/cxm0 -t <recording period in seconds> ...
Should take care of the recoding and the stopping. I'll leave you
to decide on the ... :)
--
C:>WIN | Directable Mirror Arrays
The computer obeys and wins. | A better way to focus the sun
You lose and Bill collects. | licences available see
| http://www.sohara.org/
More information about the freebsd-multimedia
mailing list