I have tried to do what you have suggested. Somehow, it still cause ffmpeg to crash at the exact moment the file is being renamed.
By the way, I am running in Windows environment. Not sure, if in Linux will this issue occurs. > On 3 Nov 2021, at 12:49 PM, Adam Nielsen <a.niel...@shikadi.net> wrote: > > >> >> textfile/reload=1 is working. >> >> However, the textfile is being updated by another process at every >> second. This caused ffmpeg to crash after running sometime as the >> ffmpeg unable to read the textfile when the other process is updating >> it. > > In the manpage it says the update has to be atomic, i.e. you should > write your update to a different file, then move the new file over the > top of the old one. That way ffmpeg will always see either the new > content or the old, and nothing in between. > > Cheers, > Adam. _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-user mailing list ffmpeg-user@ffmpeg.org https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-user-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".
