On Apr 5, 11:39 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > En Thu, 05 Apr 2007 18:19:56 -0300, Henrik Lied <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > escribió: > > > So, I thought to myself that spawnv would be a good fit for this. The > > problem is that it doesn't fire of the command. > > > Here's my test script:http://dpaste.com/hold/7981/ > > > Why won't this work? The while-loop is printed, but the os command > > isn't executed. I've also tried to specify the whole path to mencoder > > (/opt/local/bin/mencoder), but to no use. > > You are using: > v = os.spawnv(os.P_NOWAIT, "mencoder", "/Users/henriklied/test.mov > -ofps 25 -o test.flv ...") > > Read the docs about the spawnv function: > http://docs.python.org/lib/os-process.html#l2h-2749 > > In particular "...The "v" variants are good when the number of parameters > is variable, with the arguments being passed in a list or tuple as the > args parameter. In either case, the arguments to the child process must > start with the name of the command being run." > > So, for spawnv, you should build a list with each argument as an item, > being "mencoder" the first item. > But in your case it's a lot easier to use spawnl: > > v = os.spawnl(os.P_NOWAIT, "mencoder", "mencoder", > "/Users/henriklied/test.mov", "-ofps", "25", "-o", "...") > > -- > Gabriel Genellina
Hi Gabriel, Thanks for your reply - but I'm afraid to tell you that spawnl didn't do the trick either. Here's the full command I used: http://dpaste.com/hold/7982/ I'd still love to get a working example of my problem using the Subprocess module. :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
