Hello, The issue happens if VLC process hasn't been unloaded before executing another instance. In this case killall command did not work as supposed. Hope this helps. > We have a video camera which is connected to a capture card in a linux > server (CentOS 5.4). VLC takes video data from the capture card, > streams it and writes to a file. A cron job checking the file's size > and rotates it when it comes to a configured limit. After file was > rotated, VLC process is restarted. [...] -- Best regards, Alexander -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html