I find shlex.split to be most useful to make my arguments a list in these cases. On Jun 9, 2016 3:28 PM, "MRAB" <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> On 2016-06-09 19:58, Peter Otten wrote: > >> Nev wrote: >> >> Thank you for your reply. I tried something like this in python code: >>> >>> from subprocess import call >>> call(["ffmpeg -framerate 4/1 -start_number 1 -i >>> C:\\Projects\\data2\\img_%05d.png -c:v libx264 -r 30 -pix_fmt yuv420p >>> C:\\Projects\\data2\\movie.mp4"]) >>> >>> But it did not work. I get FileNotFoundError: [WinError 2] The system >>> cannot find the file specified.. >>> >> >> You have to pass the command-line arguments as separate items in the list: >> >> call(["ffmpeg", >> "-framerate", "4/1", >> "-start_number", "1", >> "-i", "C:\\Projects\\data2\\img_%05d.png", >> ... # and so on >> ]) >> >> You should also give it the full path of ffmpeg. > > On the other hand, in-loop solution would be more preferable since it lets >>> me to use variable names of the images and paths.. >>> >> > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
