On Friday 14 Apr 2006 21:02, Petter Gundersen wrote: > On 4/14/06, Kyrre Ness Sjobak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello! > > > > How can i time when a "cat" recording is about to start, and how long it > > should continue - without killing and starting it manually? > > > > Is there any bash command that could kill it for me after a set time, or > > some built-in tool in ivtv that does this (ivtv-encoder? What does this > > do?) > > See the simple bash script below. It waits one hour, and makes a 30 > min recording. > > ---------------------- > #!/bin/bash > sleep 1h # Instead of using sleep here, you can start the script by using > # the at command, see 'man at'. > > cat /dev/video0 > /path/to/some/filename.mpg & > > CAT_PID=$! > # $! is PID of last job running in background. > > sleep 30m > # You should add some check here to make sure cat is still running, > # otherwise you might accidentally kill some other process. > kill $CAT_PID > > > > Regards, > Petter > Hi Peter,
I really like your script and will definitely be using it myself, would you mind if I post it on the ivtv wiki so that other people like myself can take advantage of using it. Best Regards Trev _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
