start vlc in background on linux

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jerrygeis
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start vlc in background on linux

Postby jerrygeis » 22 Jul 2008 17:37

I am running a command like:
vlc -I dummy file.avi --quiet vlc:quit &

this works fine...

Now I want to add the --rc-host option so I run
vlc -I rc --rc-host localhost:8000 file.avi --quiet vlc:quit &

and vlc stops. If I take off the & then vlc runs fine.

How do I start vlc in the background in this case with the -I rc . I am running 0.8.5.

I tried the --background option that I saw but that tells me unknown option.

THanks,

Jerry

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Re: start vlc in background on linux

Postby xtophe » 22 Jul 2008 18:25

You can try with --rc-fake-tty

BUT i remember vaguely a bug like that so you beeter use the latest version
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Re: start vlc in background on linux

Postby yohann.martineau » 24 Jul 2008 17:11

did you try to use start-stop-daemon?


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