HandBrake / HandBrake/HandBrake
HandbrakeCLI SIGUSR1 returns completion percentage
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Enhancement
- Dominant language
- C
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Description
Description of the feature or enhancement you'd like to see in HandBrake
It would be nice if HandbrakeCLI could be polled for completion status by passing it a SIGUSR1 (like dd).
What Operating System are you running?
linux
What version of HandBrake are you running?
No response
Where did you download HandBrake from?
apt
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Research direction
Start at the HandBrakeCLI entry point and trace how Linux signals and transcoding progress are handled. Confirm the expected SIGUSR1 behavior and verify that polling the process reports its completion percentage without interrupting the encode.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- c
- Domain
- cli, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100