The output of mencoder is not readable with readlines (i tried it) because after the initial informational lines You don't get lines anymore (you get a linefeed but no newline) The prints are all on the same line (like a status line) something like Pos: 3,1s 96f ( 0%) 42fps Trem: 0min 0mb A-V:0,038 [171:63]
Have you tried popen3 with stdout and stderr?
hth Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
