Running FFmpeg as a Background Process

[@Rickmakes]

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[@MrRajaoui49]

For Linux users:
The easiest way is to add 'nohup' to the front of your command. This tells the process to ignore any hangup signal (which gets sent when the parent shell is terminated).
nohup &

[@deletedspeedstreams]

And how can I end the process again?

[@MrRajaoui49]

@@deletedspeedstreams Get process ID and kill it

[@deletedspeedstreams]

@@MrRajaoui49 okay thank you it worked😍😍😍

[@deletedspeedstreams]

@@MrRajaoui49 the process ended automatically after the stream ended

[@realrealitymedia6725]

wow thank you so much. that little ampersand was the missing piece!!

[@LuisGar104CUBES]

Many thanks! Works perfectly

[@kaan_guven]

Thanks. I was not aware of -loglevel panic. I used nohup to run that command instead. It automatically wrote the output to a file called nohup.out.

[@avirads]

thanks a lot for this tip :)

[@Windflowerize]

Thanks, this helped a lot!!

[@craciu25yt]

can I record with ffmpeg in background with terminal (or my case cmd) and after stop it? Because killing the process just corrupt the video

[@ansorisaputra9751]

how to add watermark to a video, if the video is from folder A, and the logo [image] is from folder b ? help me bro