[CoLoCo] CRON + Mencoder

[Kenneth D Weinert]

On 08/14/2010 08:28 PM, David Overcash wrote:
> Holy crap!  That actually worked!
>
> Kenneth - as odd as that seemed - it wasn't as weird as the issue
> itself.  THANK YOU SO MUCH.
>
> Now to the real question - what DID you google to find that?  Because I
> googled for almost a week straight.... >_<

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=cron+mencoder

Third main header down.

>
> And Chris - as always - thanks for your help!  The geeks in this group
> are what make it amazing.
>
> Thanks!
> -David
>
> On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Kenneth D Weinert
> <kenw at quarter-flash.com <mailto:kenw at quarter-flash.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 08/13/2010 02:40 PM, David Overcash wrote:
>      > Hey Everyone,
>      > I've been desperately trying to get a cron'd script to work that uses
>      > mencoder to rotate video files... what's extremely interesting is
>     that
>      > the script works fine when I run it as a user (it's a PHP script,
>     etc.)
>      > but it doesn't work when run through cron - it ends up creating a
>     small
>      > file with a few encoded frames, usually no longer than 1 second.
>
>     It seems odd, but take a look at this:
>
>     http://www.das-werkstatt.com/forum/werkstatt/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1800&view=next
>     <http://www.das-werkstatt.com/forum/werkstatt/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1800&view=next>
>
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