Re: [SLUG] wanted: hacker for small SFD script

From: Eben King (eben01@verizon.net)
Date: Wed Sep 13 2006 - 13:23:34 EDT

On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Sick Twist wrote:

>> From: Eben King <eben01@verizon.net>
>> Reply-To: slug@nks.net
>> To: slug@nks.net
>> Subject: Re: [SLUG] wanted: hacker for small SFD script
>> Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 11:28:01 -0400 (EDT)
>>
>> On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Sick Twist wrote:
>>
>>> Won't that run multiple instances of mplayer? Is there a way to tell
>>> mplayer to use only one instance or would we have to add killall mplayer?
>>
>> It would, but you said the movie is only ~25 minutes long. I'm implicitely
>> assuming the former one exits before the current one starts. Of course, if
>> someone pauses it, that assumption breaks.
>>
>> I also didn't come up with a way to kill xdaliclock before the next round
>> starts. Maybe prepend that cron command with "killall mplayer ; killall
>> xdaliclock ;" just to be sure. Heck, you can even get highfalutin' and put
>> it into a script and call that script from cron.
>
> No one will pause the video. This is going to be a box that just starts the
> video every 30 minutes. It needs to be completely automated so we don't have
> to babysit it. I checked out the xine man page and xine has an option to
> automatically exit when the movie is finished. I'm not sure if mplayer has
> similiar capability.

It does by default. I routinely run it without any explicite "exit at end
of movie" directive.

> The xine syntax is something like "xine --no-splash -pfq filename.ogg".

Didn't know oggs could have video, but OK.

> Hmm, but if xdaliclock is launched from crontab every 30 minutes will there
> be only one instance or will the others need to be explicitly killed?

The "killall xdaliclock" turns out to be non-optional. And if you're using
xdaliclock, you might want to use a font that actually exists. That one
doesn't on my system, and is consequently blocky from resizing. Maybe a
TrueType font would look OK? 

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