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Suite of tools for DVD authoring
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idvid in the background #107

Open tovid-suite opened 9 years ago

tovid-suite commented 9 years ago

From mark2...@gmail.com on November 04, 2009 09:30:41

If I kick off idvid on a video file (a .vob ripped from a DVD and dvdunauthor'd), redirecting output (and error stream) to a file and background it with the ampersand at the end of the command line, it hangs and never completes. If I run exactly the same command line without the ampersand, it runs fine (locking up my terminal window until it is done, of course). Also, if I schedule the command using batch, it also runs fine.

I've reproduced this issue multiple times on multiple versions of tovid, on both i386 and amd64 architectures. What on earth is going on?

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/tovid/issues/detail?id=107

tovid-suite commented 9 years ago

From wapcaplet88 on December 31, 2009 13:33:04

Confirmed; I get weird behavior when I run idvid in the background with &. Sometimes it appears to hang at "Analyzing file: ...", and other times it appears to finish (but leaves processes running that I have to kill manually). I suspect this is related to all the fancy stream-redirection that occurs inside idvid. I'm not sure how this can be fixed.

Status: Accepted
Cc: wapcaplet88
Labels: Affects-idvid Priority-Low Type-Defect

tovid-suite commented 9 years ago

From mark2...@gmail.com on December 31, 2009 23:29:56

I don't know the solution, but I do now know a workaround -- redirect input to /dev/null