Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

if ReadImage is called on a video file, an FFmpeg console window pops up.
Library functions in general should not display such things.
Is this a bug?

Not a bug, its a consequence of utilizing a delegate program, in this case ffmpeg. You can of course rebuild ffmpeg from source and set the workspace so no console is created. Eventually we may call the ffmpeg API instead which will eliminate the problem as well.

Yes it would be better if delegate processes would be created without console/window in general to avoid such things.
Otherwise there is always the danger that funny codecs create popup windows.
It would be great if that could be changed in one of the future versions of ImageMagick.