start vlc in background on linux

[jerrygeis]

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

[xtophe]

You can try with --rc-fake-tty

BUT i remember vaguely a bug like that so you beeter use the latest version

[yohann.martineau]

did you try to use start-stop-daemon?