> 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 -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
