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Re: Need help running mplayer in the background

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On Wed, 18 May 2011 13:39:18 +0000, General Schvantzkoph wrote:

>> You might try "setsid" before the command.  That might help.
> 
> 
> setsid fixes the background problem but not the cron problem. I suspect
> the problem is that mplayer is getting a few errors before starting
> 
> MPlayer SVN-r31628-4.4.4 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team mplayer: could not
> connect to socket
> mplayer: No such file or directory
> Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote
> control.
> 
> Playing http://2783.live.streamtheworld.com:443/WLSAM_SC. Resolving
> 2783.live.streamtheworld.com for AF_INET... Connecting to server
> 2783.live.streamtheworld.com[208.80.52.138]: 443... Website:
> http://www.wlsam.com
> Bitrate: 48kbit/s
> Cache size set to 320 KBytes
> 
> ICY Info: StreamTitle='';
> 
> I've installed the lirc libraries but it doesn't seem to eliminate the
> LIRC error. I'm not sure whats causing the socket problem, it does make
> the connection and capture the stream.
> 
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> at seems to work. I haven't used at before, what's the syntax for a
> repeated event?

I've added a line to my script that reschedules itself at now + 1 week 
which takes care or the repeat. However if there is a standard way of 
specifying a repeated task I'd like to know it.

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Need help running mplayer in the background General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-18 03:01 +0000
  Re: Need help running mplayer in the background Kevin Snodgrass <kdsnodgrass@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-18 03:14 +0000
    Re: Need help running mplayer in the background Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2011-05-18 03:41 +0000
      Re: Need help running mplayer in the background General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-18 13:39 +0000
        Re: Need help running mplayer in the background General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-18 16:24 +0000
          Re: Need help running mplayer in the background Bill Marcum <bill@lat.localnet> - 2011-05-19 10:05 -0400
            Re: Need help running mplayer in the background General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-19 17:41 +0000
              Re: Need help running mplayer in the background Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2011-05-20 03:43 +0000
        Re: Need help running mplayer in the background Huibert Bol <huibert.bol@quicknet.nl> - 2011-05-18 18:49 +0200
          Re: Need help running mplayer in the background General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-18 18:15 +0000
    Re: Need help running mplayer in the background Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2011-05-18 05:56 +0000
    Re: Need help running mplayer in the background Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk> - 2011-05-19 22:54 +0100
  Re: Need help running mplayer in the background Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk> - 2011-05-19 23:11 +0100
    Re: Need help running mplayer in the background General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-20 01:44 +0000
      Re: Need help running mplayer in the background Aragorn <aragorn@chatfactory.invalid> - 2011-05-20 07:30 +0200
        Re: Need help running mplayer in the background General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-20 11:46 +0000
      Re: Need help running mplayer in the background Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk> - 2011-05-20 09:19 +0100
        Re: Need help running mplayer in the background General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-20 11:56 +0000
          Re: Need help running mplayer in the background Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk> - 2011-05-20 15:36 +0100
            Re: Need help running mplayer in the background General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-20 18:28 +0000
        Re: Need help running mplayer in the background General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-20 12:09 +0000

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