Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 08:39:16 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: schedule script strategies? Message-ID: <20060414083916.0d76f0f0.steve@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <538A632F-BE1C-434A-B558-E7394494F3E5@netmusician.org> References: <538A632F-BE1C-434A-B558-E7394494F3E5@netmusician.org>
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On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 23:33:18 -0400
Joe Auty <joe@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 ... :)
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