I need help writing a script to record from an internet stream

[kevin11951]

I am trying to find a way to record the stream from this URL every day from 6pm-9pm: mms://winmedia.voxcdn.net/3137-live1-wmv?MSWMExt=.asf

I can play it in both vlc and totem fine, but they stream a new episode every day from 6pm-9pm, and i am not always at the computer, so i want it to record from that stream, starting at 6pm for 3 hours, then stop and save it somewhere.

I know its possible, but i just dont know how.

[loell]

basically you need mplayer to capture the .ASF stream.

refer to this thread,
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=436926

ie mplayer -dumpstream mms://winmedia.voxcdn.net/3137-live1-wmv?MSWMExt=.asf


then most probably put it in a cron job. :)

[kevin11951]

basically you need mplayer to capture the .ASF stream.

refer to this thread,
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=436926

ie mplayer -dumpstream mms://winmedia.voxcdn.net/3137-live1-wmv?MSWMExt=.asf


then most probably put it in a cron job. :)

how do i force it to stop after exactly 3 hours?

something like this comes to mind:


mplayer -dumpstream mms://winmedia.voxcdn.net/3137-live1-wmv?MSWMExt=.asf &
sleep 10800
killall mplayer


but what if i am using mplayer for something else when it finishes, bye bye mplayer...

[loell]

err, don't use killall then? ;)

you now have to 'kill [processID]' , in which case your script must catch ps aux | grep mplayer, then kill the lesser process ID number.

[andrew.46]

Hi kevin,


but what if i am using mplayer for something else when it finishes, bye bye mplayer...

Try running:


kill $!

after your sleep command, this should kill the most recently backgrounded process in the script and is easier than grabbing the exact pid.

All the best,

Andrew