[MPlayer-users] Cron mplayer issue

[John Coulthard]

Thanks for the suggestion but I tried adding </dev/null & to the end of both 
the crontab and the mplayer commands but still got the output written to / 
(root), did I missunderstand something?

You could easly add a line to the shellscript "mv /audiodump.wav 
/home/ann/rips/Show.wav" if your root partition is big enough to hold the 
show but mine isn't.

I found this which says that ./audiodump.wav is hard coded in the "-ao pcm" 
option unless you specify a file. So anyone know why the specified output 
file is not used by cron?

Thanks in advance for any info.


>From http://linuxreviews.org/man/mplayer/
AUDIO OUTPUT DRIVERS (MPLAYER ONLY)
Audio output drivers are interfaces to different audio output facilities. 
The syntax is:

-ao <driver1[:suboption1[=value]:...],driver2,...[,]>
    Specify a priority list of audio output drivers to be used.

pcm (also see -aofile)
    Raw PCM/:wave file writer audio output. Writes the sound to 
./audiodump.wav

-aofile <filename>
    Override the default filename employed by -ao pcm.

-aofile is deprecated. Use -ao pcm:file=<filename> instead.

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