Wasn't sure where to put this, but I thought it was worth sharing. I wanted to take advantadge of the low power usage of my plug to convert some videos with ffmpeg, but the idea of leaving the terminal open on my PC for the entire time it took to convert seemed a waste of energy. I've been looking for script that would run ffmpeg in the background as a daemon but no luck. I finally came across a java daemon script. I modified it a bit and ... it works! I'm sure others can do better, and I may try to improve it over time, but for now this converts mp4 files to mpeg2 files. you can edit the ffmpeg command lines parameters in the file if you choose to. I named the script ffmpegd, and to run it the command is ffmpegd {start|stop|restart|status} and then the name of the video filename without the .mp4
I hope this is useful to others.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '#!/bin/bash
#
# chkconfig: 345 99 05
# description: Java deamon script
#
# A non-SUSE Linux start/stop script for Java daemons.
#
# Derived from -
# Home page: http://www.source-code.biz
# License: GNU/LGPL (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html)
# Copyright 2006 Christian d'Heureuse, Inventec Informatik AG, Switzerland.
#
# History:
# 2012-3-17 SocalTom: modified to make ffmpeg a daemon
#2010-09-21 Josh Davis: Changed 'sudo' to 'su', fix some typos, removed unused variables
# 2009-03-04 Josh Davis: Ubuntu/Redhat version.
# 2006-06-27 Christian d'Heureuse: Script created.
# 2006-07-02 chdh: Minor improvements.
# 2006-07-10 chdh: Changes for SUSE 10.0.
# Set this to your ffmpeg installation
FFMPEG_HOME=/usr/bin
serviceNameLo="ffmpegd" # service name with the first letter in lowercase
serviceName="Ffmpegd" # service name
serviceUser="root" # OS user name for the service
serviceGroup="users" # OS group name for the service
applDir="/usr/bin/" # home directory of the service application
serviceUserHome="/home/tom" # Location of video to be converted
serviceLogFile="/var/log/$serviceNameLo.log" # output goes to log file file for StdOut/StdErr
maxShutdownTime=15 # maximum number of seconds to wait for the daemon to terminate normally
pidFile="/var/run/$serviceNameLo.pid" # name of PID file (PID = process ID number)
javaCommand="ffmpeg" # name of the Java launcher without the path
javaExe="$FFMPEG_HOME/$javaCommand" # file name of the Java application launcher executable
javaArgs="-i /$serviceUserHome/$2.mp4 -vcodec mpeg2video -b:v 16384k -maxrate 30000k -bufsize 1950k -ab 448k -ar 44100 -acodec ac3 -loglevel error -copyts -f vob /$serviceUserHome/$2.mpg" # arguments for Java launcher
javaCommandLine="$javaExe $javaArgs" # command line to start the Java service application
javaCommandLineKeyword="ffmpeg" # a keyword that occurs on the commandline, used to detect an already running service process and to distinguish it from others
# Makes the file $1 writable by the group $serviceGroup.
function makeFileWritable {
local filename="$1"
touch $filename || return 1
chgrp $serviceGroup $filename || return 1
chmod g+w $filename || return 1
return 0; }
# Returns 0 if the process with PID $1 is running.
function checkProcessIsRunning {
local pid="$1"
if [ -z "$pid" -o "$pid" == " " ]; then return 1; fi
if [ ! -e /proc/$pid ]; then return 1; fi
return 0; }
# Returns 0 if the process with PID $2 is our Java service process.
function checkProcessIsOurService {
local pid="$1"
if [ "$(ps -p $pid --no-headers -o comm)" != "$javaCommand" ]; then return 1; fi
grep -q --binary -F "$javaCommandLineKeyword" /proc/$pid/cmdline
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then return 1; fi
return 0; }
# Returns 0 when the service is running and sets the variable $pid to the PID.
function getServicePID {
if [ ! -f $pidFile ]; then return 1; fi
pid="$(<$pidFile)"
checkProcessIsRunning $pid || return 1
checkProcessIsOurService $pid || return 1
return 0; }
function startServiceProcess {
cd $applDir || return 1
rm -f $pidFile
makeFileWritable $pidFile || return 1
makeFileWritable $serviceLogFile || return 1
cmd="nohup $javaCommandLine >>$serviceLogFile 2>&1 & echo \$! >$pidFile"
su -m $serviceUser -s $SHELL -c "$cmd" || return 1
sleep 0.1
pid="$(<$pidFile)"
if checkProcessIsRunning $pid; then :; else
echo -ne "\n$serviceName start failed, see logfile."
return 1
fi
return 0; }
function stopServiceProcess {
kill $pid || return 1
for ((i=0; i<maxShutdownTime*10; i++)); do
checkProcessIsRunning $pid
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
rm -f $pidFile
return 0
fi
sleep 0.1
done
echo -e "\n$serviceName did not terminate within $maxShutdownTime seconds, sending SIGKILL..."
kill -s KILL $pid || return 1
local killWaitTime=15
for ((i=0; i<killWaitTime*10; i++)); do
checkProcessIsRunning $pid
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
rm -f $pidFile
return 0
fi
sleep 0.1
done
echo "Error: $serviceName could not be stopped within $maxShutdownTime+$killWaitTime seconds!"
return 1; }
function startService {
getServicePID
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then echo -n "$serviceName is already running"; RETVAL=0; return 0; fi
echo -n "Starting $serviceName "
startServiceProcess
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then RETVAL=1; echo "failed"; return 1; fi
echo "started PID=$pid"
RETVAL=0
return 0; }
function stopService {
getServicePID
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then echo -n "$serviceName is not running"; RETVAL=0; echo ""; return 0; fi
echo -n "Stopping $serviceName "
stopServiceProcess
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then RETVAL=1; echo "failed"; return 1; fi
echo "stopped PID=$pid"
RETVAL=0
return 0; }
function checkServiceStatus {
echo -n "Checking for $serviceName: "
if getServicePID; then
echo "running PID=$pid"
RETVAL=0
else
echo "stopped"
RETVAL=3
fi
return 0; }
function main {
RETVAL=0
case "$1" in
start) # starts the Java program as a Linux service
startService
;;
stop) # stops the Java program service
stopService
;;
restart) # stops and restarts the service
stopService && startService
;;
status) # displays the service status
checkServiceStatus
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|status} Movie_File_Name without.mp4"
exit 1
;;
esac
exit $RETVAL
}
main $1
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