hmm, i guess i can open it as a pipe...hmm, yes, that is exactly what i was looking for...
On Saturday 04 January 2003 05:45 pm, christopher j bottaro wrote: > hello, > i'm writing a little dvd to divx perl script using mencoder and a 3 pass > method. i want to allow auto cropdetection and cropping. to find the crop > parameters, you gotta run mplayer and watch the output for the crop > parameters. well, i suppose in perl i can capture mplayer's output with > the backtick operators and search for the crop parameters, but the problem > with that is its going to take forever for the movie to finish (or even one > chapter to finish). i want to be able to parse the output of mplayer as > its running and as soon as i parse the crop parameters, i want to kill the > process. how do i do that? i mean how can i do it easily? without > starting a seperate thread or something...=P > > thanks for the help, > christopher -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
