Raymond, Would you be able to provide any additional information on how you are capturing video with cat? If this information would not be pertinent to other members of the list we could take the discussion offline. Thanks. --Matt On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Florin Iucha <florin at iucha.net> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 12:45:35PM -0500, Raymond Norton wrote: > > I am using cat to capture video from VHS tapes, saving the files as > > mpegs and don't want to baby sit things. How can I launch cat with a > > predetermined ending time without having to use cron? > > Can you convert time into space (bytes) and use dd instead of cat? > > Cheers, > florin > > -- > Beware of software written by optimists! > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20120501/9cddea99/attachment.html>