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

[Rolf Dubitzky]

On Saturday 15 February 2003 02:03 pm, Jason Wood wrote:
> 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 guess the latter is the case.

> 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?

I have to revisit that part of the code also because it sometimes takes 
minutes on my box before it is possible to restart piave on the same port 
after a crash. 


Cheers,
Rolf

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