[MPlayer-users] feature request? killing other processes using resources

[Stephen Davies]

On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Chris Phillips wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Afternoon people
> 
> Does anyone else think it would be beneficial to be able to get mplayer or 
> mencoder to try to kill any programs using resources that would otherwise 
> make the program fail? Inparticular i'm thinking about a TV card... I've a 
> script that sets a cron job to record from tv. But if Xawtv is on or such 
> like then the system will obviously fail. Any chance of adding the same 
> functionality of an "fuser -k /dev/video0" as an additional option?

Come on - this is Unix.  Use a script to do that before starting mplayer.

Steve