On Wed, Nov 3, 2021 at 12:57 PM LianCheng Tan <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > Top posting is not allowed here. What is exactly meaning about 'crash' ? Does it simply errors out or it dumps core? > > > > On 3 Nov 2021, at 12:49 PM, Adam Nielsen <[email protected]> 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 > [email protected] > https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user > > To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email > [email protected] with subject "unsubscribe". > _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-user mailing list [email protected] https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email [email protected] with subject "unsubscribe".
