[MPlayer-users] Cron mplayer issue

[Paul TT]

On Wed, 04 Jan 2006 07:47:33 +0000
"John Coulthard" <bahhab at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the reply.
> 
> I've not sovled the strange cron behavior but I have come up with a
> work  round.  The default file location for -ao pcm is ./audiodump.wav
> so instead  of trying to hard code the output location just do a cd 
> /required/location/dir in the shell script and the audiodump.wav file
> will  be put in there.
> 
> For anyone serching for a solution here are my crontab comand and
> shell  script.
> 

yes probably it's a matter of how mplayer open the stdout/err/stuffs... 
maybe adding a & at the end of the cmd line would have solved the
problem... ?