On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Chris Rebert c...@rebertia.com wrote:
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Varnon Varnon varnonz...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm sure this is a simple problem, or at least I hope it is, but I'm
not an experience programer and the solution eludes me.
My realm of study is the behavioral sciences. I want to write a
program to help me record data from movie files.
Currently I have a program that can record the time of a keystroke so
that I can use that to obtain frequency, duration and other temporal
characteristics of the behaviors in my movies.
What I really want, is a way to start playing the movie. Right now I
have to play the movie, then switch to my program. I would love it if
it were possible for me to have my program send a message to quicktime
that says play. Or any other work around really. If python could
play the movie, that would work just as well.
I'm using a mac btw.
Any suggestions?
import subprocess
subprocess.Popen([open, path/to/the/movie.file])
Docs for the subprocess module:
http://docs.python.org/library/subprocess.html
For information on the Mac OS X open command, `man open` from Terminal.
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Chris Varnon varnonz...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks, That works wonderfuly. Once I set quicktimes preferences to
play on open it opens and plays the movie exactly like I want.
But now I need a line of code to bring python to the front again so it
can read my input. Any more suggestions?
Add the -g option so focus isn't given to Quicktime (this is covered
in the manpage I pointed you to):
subprocess.Popen([open, -g, path/to/the/movie.file])
Also, in the future, try to avoid top-posting (see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style).
Cheers,
Chris
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Wonderful. I totally missed the -g option.
I use pygame for the input handling currently. Maybe its not the most
elegant solution, but it's what I knew how to do. I just wasn't sure
how to do that one last bit.
Thanks a bunch!
Also, I typicaly don't post over email lists, so I didn't think about
the top-posting. This is the prefered method right?
Thanks again.
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