On top of the suggestions:
1. I think you may have an MTA but may not configured mail for the root.
2. To actually see what the script does: I'd wget that m3u url and see what
comes out of the wire. If it's a legit playlist than I'd wget some of that
as well if legit.
3. Check that the transcoder works at the command line

On Fri, Dec 11, 2020, 9:13 AM Paul Boniol <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thank you! Knew it was probably something simple I was overlooking.  That
> got it working.
>
> Paul
>
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 2:16 AM John R. Dennison <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 02:03:25AM -0600, Paul Boniol wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > crontab -e as my usual user.
>> >
>> > 0 0 * * * timeout 4h cvlc -I dummy
>> > https://stream.revma.ihrhls.com/zc2149/hls.m3u8 :no-video
>> >
>> :sout="#transcode{acodec=mp3,ab=128}:std{access=file,mux=dummy,dst=/home/paul/Audio/Coast-$(date
>> > '+%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S').mp3"
>>
>> Any '%' in a crontab needs to be escaped as it has special meaning to
>> cron:
>>
>> "A "%" character in the command, unless escaped with a backslash (\),
>> will be changed into newline characters,  and all data after the first %
>> will be sent to the command as standard input."
>>
>> (man 5 crontab)
>>
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