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Always get suspended when run youtube-dl in background

See original GitHub issue

I found that I have no way to run youtube-dl in background. I tried all possible options to make it running in silence. But I still get ‘suspended’ job:

% stty -tostop && youtube-dl -q -i --no-warnings -o '%(id)s.%(ext)s'  $video_url >/dev/null 2>&1 &
[1] 53435
%
[1]  + 53435 suspended (tty output)  youtube-dl -q -i --no-warnings -o '%(id)s.%(ext)s'  > /dev/null 2>&1

Local env

[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.08.10
[debug] Python version 2.7.12 - Darwin-15.6.0-x86_64-i386-64bit

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yan12125commented, Sep 20, 2016

A workaround:

Create ~/ffmpeg_wrapper.sh with the following contents:

#!/bin/bash
ffmpeg -d $*

chmod +x ~/ffmpeg_wrapper.sh
youtube-dl -o '%(id)s.%(ext)s' --ffmpeg-location ~/ffmpeg_wrapper.sh $video_url

See https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/blob/ae1dd0c/ffmpeg.c#L384 for what’s broken and why -d works.

UPDATE: Fix commands in the workaround.

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yan12125commented, Oct 22, 2016

Thanks to @johnhawkinson (#10996), this will be fixed in the next version.

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