[Ffmpeg-devel] -quiet flag patch

[Piero Bugoni]

--- Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 07:59:12PM -0800, Dan
> Brumleve wrote:
> > Attached is a -quiet flag patch for ffmpeg.  It
> closes stderr, sets verbose
> > to -1, and bypasses the undesirable termios.  I
> was forced to move
> > show_banner to after parse_options in order to
> suppress the banner.
> 
> may i ask what this patch is good for?
> 

You must have read my mind. I was about to propose
such  a revision. Why? because I am a live video freak
with a maniacal fixation on the ffmpeg/ffserver combo.


Being able to run ffmpeg in the background, and send
stdio/stderr to /dev/null, a file or wherever, (or
have no output at all), means that a person can start,
or (restart) these processes from a cron job, rc
script or whatever and as in my case have an automated
network video server. The processes can keep running
after they log out, or be managed automatically with
no login, or from a web interface, etc.

I already have a use for such a thing. I will post
more when it is built, or possibly request that it be
added on the projects page. 

Right now, I am using some other tricks to do this,
and if nothing else they just add overhead.


The ffserver/ffmpeg combo has phenomenal network
streaming potential. Whether live, or otherwise.

Thanks for this.

Piero.


 
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