Try using the -noconsolecontrols option... Regards, Magnus On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 13:08:54 -0600 Kevin Sookocheff <kbs464@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > ????????I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this but hopefully some of > you have done this before. > > I've managed to get everything working as it should when recording internet > from the command line using mplayer. ?But I still have a problem recording > using cron to record at specific times. > > I issue the following statement on command line : > > mplayer http://oggtrial.nm.cbc.ca:80/cbcr2-toronto.ogg -ao pcm > -aofile /home/kbs464/tmp/mystream.wav -vc dummy -vo null; > > With the following satisfactory results: > > MPlayer 1.0pre6-3.4.3 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team > CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Xeon/Celeron Northwood (Family: 8, Stepping: 3) > Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes > CPUflags: ?MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 > Compiled with runtime CPU detection - WARNING - this is not optimal! > To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with > --disable-runtime-cpudetection. > > > 77 audio & 188 video codecs > Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied > Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system > startup scripts. > Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0 > Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0 : No such file or directory > Can't init input joystick > Setting up LIRC support... > mplayer: could not connect to socket > mplayer: No such file or directory > Failed to open LIRC support. > You will not be able to use your remote control. > Playing http://oggtrial.nm.cbc.ca:80/cbcr2-toronto.ogg. > Resolving oggtrial.nm.cbc.ca for AF_INET6... > Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: oggtrial.nm.cbc.ca > Resolving oggtrial.nm.cbc.ca for AF_INET... > Connecting to server oggtrial.nm.cbc.ca[159.33.6.141]:80 ... > Cache size set to 8192 KBytes > Connected to server: oggtrial.nm.cbc.ca > Cache fill: 19.92% (1671168 bytes) ? ?Ogg file format detected. > ========================================================================== > Trying to force audio codec driver family libmad... > Opening audio decoder: [libvorbis] Ogg/Vorbis audio decoder > AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x10), ratio: 4000->176400 (32.0 kbit) > Selected audio codec: [vorbis] afm:libvorbis (OggVorbis Audio Decoder) > ========================================================================== > Checking audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/16bit -> 44100Hz/2ch/16bit... > AF_pre: af format: 2 bps, 2 ch, 44100 hz, little endian signed int > AF_pre: 44100Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian) > [AO PCM] File: /home/kbs464/tmp/mystream.wav (WAVE) > PCM: Samplerate: 44100Hz Channels: Stereo Format Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian) > [AO PCM] Info: fastest dumping is achieved with -vc dummy -vo null > PCM: Info: to write WAVE files use -waveheader (default). > AO: [pcm] 44100Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian) (2 bps) > Building audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/16bit -> 44100Hz/2ch/16bit... > Video: no video > Starting playback... > Ogg : bad packet in stream 0 > A:1049661.2 (91:34:21.2) ?0.0% 0% ? ? ? > > and a file /home/kbs464/tmp/mystream.wav gets created. > > However, if I run the exact same command as part of the cron scheduler I get > nothing. ?No file gets created by mplayer. > > My crontab looks like this: > > 55 11 * * 1-5 /home/kbs464/scripts/streamrecorder &> /dev/null > 30 12 * * 1-5 killall -9 mplayer > > And the streamrecorder script like so: > > #!/bin/bash > > mplayer http://oggtrial.nm.cbc.ca:80/cbcr2-toronto.ogg -ao pcm > -aofile /home/kbs464/tmp/mystream.wav -vc dummy -vo null; > oggenc /home/kbs464/tmp/mystream.wav -o /home/kbs464/BraveNewWaves_`date > +%b_%d_%y`.ogg; > rm -f /home/kbs464/tmp/mystream.wav; > > > If, in crontab, I change the redirect of the streamrecorder script to a text > file I get the following back: > > (contents of error file) > > MPlayer 1.0pre6-3.4.3 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team > CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Xeon/Celeron Northwood (Family: 8, Stepping: 3) > Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes > CPUflags: ?MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 > Compiled with runtime CPU detection - WARNING - this is not optimal! > To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with > --disable-runtime-cpudetection. > > > 77 audio & 188 video codecs > Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied > Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system > startup scripts. > Can't init input joystick > Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0 > Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0 : No such file or directory > Setting up LIRC support... > mplayer: could not connect to socket > mplayer: No such file or directory > Failed to open LIRC support. > You will not be able to use your remote control. > Playing http://oggtrial.nm.cbc.ca:80/cbcr2-toronto.ogg. > Resolving oggtrial.nm.cbc.ca for AF_INET6... > Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: oggtrial.nm.cbc.ca > Resolving oggtrial.nm.cbc.ca for AF_INET... > Connecting to server oggtrial.nm.cbc.ca[159.33.6.141]:80 ... > Cache size set to 8192 KBytes > Connected to server: oggtrial.nm.cbc.ca > Cache fill: ?0.00% (0 bytes) > Cache fill: ?0.00% (0 bytes) > Cache fill: ?0.00% (0 bytes) > Cache fill: ?0.00% (0 bytes) > Cache fill: ?0.00% (0 bytes) > Cache fill: ?0.00% (0 bytes) > > And so on... the cache fill never moves from 0 even though the exact command > that I ran on the command line is running via cron. > > Anyone have any suggestions on how to get this working? > > Thank you very much for your time, > Kevin > >
