I don't have a full example, but the thread module won't do what you
need. You need to spawn an external process to do your job. For this
take a look at python's documentation. It's a faily simple thing to
do, if you just want to run mencoder on the file,

On 14/03/07, Henrik Lied <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi there!
>
> I have a model which allows people to upload videos.
> In the save-method I run os.system("mencoder *variables"), which
> converts the uploaded video to a flash file.
>
> I don't want the user to have to wait until the conversion is done
> before he can go on with his business. I've tried the Thread-module,
> but the current job still waits for the background process to finish..
>
> Does anyone have a good idea (with a full example) on how I should go
> on? :-)
>
>
> >
>

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