[Kdenlive-devel] Piave processes don't always die

[Jason Wood]

Hi,

This is an issue that has been around for a while, but now all of the major 
piave issues seem to have been dealt with, I think it's time to bring it up.

Occasionally, on closing kdenlive a piave process remains alive. I don't know 
if this is caused by kdenlive failing to shut it down correctly (I have 
suspicions that the KProcess object is responsible for the freezes that you 
are experiencing in kdenlive, and it may also be responsible for this). or, 
it could be that piave isn't terminating it's threads correctly when it 
crashes. I think this is possible, since I have sometimes experienced the 
piave process crashing, but then continue to recieve debug information on the 
same channel - there was an example I posted a week or so ago, when a 
continuous stream of video resize messages were emitted after piave had 
crashed.

The upshot is, that before kdenlive can be re-started correctly, the stray 
processes need to be killed. Have you any thoughts on the best way to deal 
with this issue?

Cheers,
Jason

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