From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 14 03:33:24 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F96616A405 for ; Fri, 14 Apr 2006 03:33:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joe@netmusician.org) Received: from netmusician.org (netmusician.org [209.67.223.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F4B243D5A for ; Fri, 14 Apr 2006 03:33:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joe@netmusician.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by netmusician.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44B7A7309A for ; Thu, 13 Apr 2006 23:33:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from netmusician.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (netmusician.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 12288-06 for ; Thu, 13 Apr 2006 23:33:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (12-223-193-72.client.insightbb.com [12.223.193.72]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by netmusician.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9588F73099 for ; Thu, 13 Apr 2006 23:33:18 -0400 (EDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v749.3) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <538A632F-BE1C-434A-B558-E7394494F3E5@netmusician.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org From: Joe Auty Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 23:33:18 -0400 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.749.3) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at netmusician.org Subject: schedule script strategies? X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 03:33:24 -0000 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? ----------- Joe Auty NetMusician: web publishing software for musicians http://www.netmusician.org joe@netmusician.org