Feature request: don't open output file in exclusive mode

[cosmotic]

When opening the output file to write to, it would be great if the file could be opened in non-exclusive mode so that other applications, like VLC, could read from the file as it is written. This makes it easy to preview the file.

[Woodstock]

VLC will crash if you try this. It scans the file before playing, and, if it is not complete, it dies.

Opening in exclusive mode is the only SAFE way to do it!

[cosmotic]

I have no problem doing this with firefox downloads.

[paulster]

That's because they download in linear fashion with the headers already intact at the start of the download.

MakeMKV has to go back and modify the headers at the end of processing to remove things like empty subtitle tracks, so it has to write over areas you could already be playing or at least change the data that VLC has already read.