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get the pid with
kill $(ps ux | awk '/mplayer/ && !/awk/ {print $2}')
kill the process after x minutes

'parla con me'
Tuesday to Friday
23:10 to 24:10

minute (0-59),
hour (0-23),
day of the month (1-31),
month of the year (1-12),
day of the week (0-6 with 0=Sunday).

EXAMPLES

crontab -e = edits the crontab file to be used.

0 12 14 2 * mailx john%Happy Birthday!%Time for lunch.
10 23 * * 2-5 record_parla-con_me


#/bin/bash
MPLAYER=/usr/bin/mplayer
MMS_URL=$1
OUT_NAME=$2



function usage {
echo "please use: capture-mms.sh MMS_URL outputFileName"
exit 1
}
[ $# -lt 2 ] && usage



echo "$MPLAYER -nocache -nolirc -noconsolecontrols -dumpstream -dumpfile $2.wmv $1 < /dev/null"
$MPLAYER -nocache -nolirc -noconsolecontrols -dumpstream -dumpfile $2.wmv $1 < /dev/null &
echo "go to sleep ZZzzz"
sleep 30
echo "wake up !!"
kill $(ps ux | awk '/mplayer/ && !/awk/ {print $2}')
echo "..Done !"