Cyrus A wrote: > > > It's very close to working now. After running 'transcode -i > soundtest2.mp3 -a 0 -J astat' (also with soundtest.mp3 (the silent one)) > the program hangs. However, when I hit ctrl-c to kill it, it then gives > me the information I'm looking for in the form of "[filter_astat.so] > audio track seems only silence" or other information if the track is not > silent. Why is it hanging?
Find the pid of the transcode process and run strace -fp $pid And it will likely tell you exactly why it's hung.