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?
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. > > Cheers, > Chris > -- > http://blog.rebertia.com > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
