Re: [Webvcrplus-help] Pre-recording commands?

[Chuck W. <ch...@qu...>]

> Where in the setup (if at all) would it be possible to set up commands
> to be executed before recording begins? For instance, my wife and kids
> will, a lot of times, fire up xawtv/motv when they are in the office,
> and on a few occasions, I have missed recordings because the xawtv
> session gets minimized. I would like to execute a pkill xawtv a few
> seconds prior to record time. Could this be done?

I think that's a great suggestion that we could hack in now. The only 
thing I would wonder is, what if it wasn't xawtv/motv that is hanging onto 
/dev/video? Will fuser or a similar program be able to divine the proper 
PID to kill by looking at /dev/video? Another problem that comes to mind 
is what happens if they try to restart xawtv and it won't start. I know 
I'd be getting a call "the computer's broken!!!". Perhaps that's just a 
user training issue though...

-Chuck


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