I run a small interactive script, that at its end, plays a very long video stream using ffplay. Since this is a very long video stream, the user usually closes the terminal windows that the script runs from.
The relevant part of the script looks like this:
#!/usr/bin/env python3
import os
os.system('ffplay /home/rafa/tmp/1.mp4 &')
When running from a Terminal, everything works fine. But the user wants an icon in the desktop, so I created a launcher that looks like this:
[Desktop Entry]
Name=ff_launch
Exec=/home/rafa/tmp/7.py
Terminal=true
Type=Application
The problem is that with that, the screen flicks for an instant and nothing happens. If don't send ffplay to background (meaning I remove the "&" from the script), a new window with the video stream is displayed, but if the terminal is closed, ffplay closes as well.
The script is interactive, meaning it asks the user for a few inputs before playing the video stream.
Any suggestion?