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		rcap on Sept 2, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: A simple recording program with the abili... Assigning `killall ffmpeg` to a hotkey does the job.

hutzlibu on Sept 2, 2021 [–]

Hm, I think I tried that and it caused trouble with mp4.

Extigy on Sept 2, 2021 | [–]

You might have better luck sending SIGINT instead of SIGTERM using 'killall -INT ffmpeg' so that it exits cleanly.

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