On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 14:40, Erik Lane <[email protected]> wrote: > Now I just need to use screen to be able to close the ssh session without > killing the video and it looks like I'm set.
using gnu screen isn't a bad idea anyway so you can get diagnostics about bad video files, or even suggestions--i use mplayer on a slow machine and it is often too slow, in fact, to play video at full speed and mplayer will suggest command line options that work around or even sometimes alleviate the suffering). > (I might be misunderstanding > nohup, but I've tried it, and every time I close the ssh session it kills > the movie, even with the nohup first on the cli. Oh well, not a big deal.) are you running it as: nohup vlc -flag1 argument1 ... > outputfile 2>&1 & that's the only surefire way i'm aware of to make nohup work--you have to redirect the output somewhere (it says it'll use nohup.out, but i have distinct memories of processes dieing when they tried to output to stderr even so. perhaps that's a problem that was solved 10 years ago though, i stopped using nohup much back then thanks to screen...) > Thanks again to everyone, I've learned quite a bit in this little adventure. > > Erik > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
