[CoLoCo] CRON + Mencoder

[David Overcash]

Want to know the funny thing?  You search "mencoder cron" and you get
completely unhelpful results on my end...  Ah well, such is the skill of
google.

Thanks man.

On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 8:48 PM, Kenneth D Weinert
<kenw at quarter-flash.com>wrote:

> 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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