idvid in the background

[tovid-suite]

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]

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]

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