On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 1:02 PM, shacky <shacky83 at gmail.com> wrote: > They are all live streamings, but I need to record them only for a > specified time lenght (some seconds or some minutes). I do something like: mplayer -ao pcm:file=foo.wav ..... & pid=$! sleep $time kill $pid oggenc < foo.wav > foo.ogg Actually, my real script is a good deal more complicated than that, dealing with failures, restarts, unique file names, and stuff. I'm doing some stuff that, now, a couple of years later, I'm not sure why I did it that way. I'm also not sure why I didn't use -endpos, so you may start there. mrc
