====== How To Manually Terminate FFmpeg Process ======


===== On Windows =====


==== Option 1 ====

1. Download and extract the ffmpeg kill.bat from the attached ZIP file

[[http://forum.serviio.org/download/file.php?id=1211|FFmpeg.zp]]

2. Enjoy

==== Option 2 ====

1. Create FFmpeg kill.bat
2. Edit file with notepad.exe
3. Add this code

<code>taskkill /im ffmpeg.exe </code>

4. Save bat file
5. Enjoy

===== On Linux/BSD/Solaris =====

1. From command prompt type

<code>kill -e -q ffmpeg</code>

===== On Mac =====

For MAC we have 2 options. 
 
1. To force-kill a process one has to send the KILL signal:

  killall -KILL ffmpeg

2. To kill a process that runs under a different user: (may ask for a password)

  sudo killall -KILL ffmpeg