On Wed, 01 Apr 2009 8:20:49 pm Simon Green wrote:
Is the show available as a podcast? You could use a program such as gpodder (or amarok) to download the podcast and replay it at your leisure.
That's the way I like to do things, but in this case there aren't podcasts for every show.
Failing that you could set up a cron using mencoder (part of mplayer, but a separate package in Debian and Ubuntu) to record the program, and use the endtime option to specific the length.
'mencoder' didn't seem to understand *.m3u playlists, but 'mplayer' did, and it can record (maybe via 'mencoder'). The magic line seems to be: mplayer -playlist WHEREVER.m3u -endpos HOWLONG -ao pcm:file=WHATEVER.wav -vc dummy -vo nul (The last few options are what I've used to copy tracks off my CDs. I don't remember what they mean.) I set it up to run with 'kcron' and it worked nicely! Thanks! --Glyn