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

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