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My Node.js application uses child_process.spawn() to invoke ffmpeg for inspecting audio and video files. This code had been running without fail for many months. How come it suddenly started sporadically returning empty results? Recently, I was preparing for an important demo of Growl, the technolo…
Chris Hickman
For a while, Node.js was relatively static (and serialized) with its versioning. For example, Node.js remained on version 0.10.X for about 18 months. There wasn't much need to have multiple versions of Node.js installed on the same machine, so installing and maintaining Node.js with your favorite…
Chris Hickman