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On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I connect to a remote server regularly and use its spare CPU to do video
> transcoding. I use MEncoder to do the video portion and the primary
> problem I have is that I can may time out randomly (I'm behind a router
> running DD-WRT, so maybe it's related to the problem Jon Schewe posted
> about) and when that happens, I have to start the encode over (this is
> especially frustrating when doing a 3-hour event from a BD or 1080i TV
> cap). Adding & to the end of my command has two problems. First, the
> constantly updated status line with percent finished and other important
> information is still written to the terminal and covers up any commands
> I type as well as any output a command gives. Second, this does not
> prevent MEncoder from stopping if I time out anyway. I find that the
> only way to prevent MEncoder from stopping is to add & to the command
> and exit the terminal. My script with MEncoder will still run in the
> background whether I'm connected or not, but I then have no way to see
> the status line again. Ideally, I want to reattach the status line to a
> terminal so I can see it and then detach it and send it back into the
> background.
>
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