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From: General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Need help running mplayer in the background
Date: 20 May 2011 01:44:38 GMT
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On Thu, 19 May 2011 23:11:11 +0100, Chris Davies wrote:

> General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> I can't run mplayer in the background. mplayer -dumpstream
>> http://2783.live.streamtheworld.com:443/WLSAM_SC -ac mp3lacm -dumpfile
>> /home/foobar/s_drive/mp3/stream/bob_${DAY}.mp3 >& log &
> 
> 
> This works for me (it's a bit cludgy but I can't see a way to turn off
> keyboard input "properly"):
> 
> mplayer -quiet -slave -input
> nodefault-bindings:file=/dev/null:conf=/dev/null -dumpstream
> http://2783.live.streamtheworld.com:443/WLSAM_SC -ac mp3lacm -dumpfile
> bob.mp3 >& log &
> 
> Chris

Doesn't seem to help the cron problem, at and putting it in the background 
still work with the additional switches and there no error messages when I 
execute it from a shell.