Re: Starting an external, independent process from a script

2007-03-14 Thread skam
I use ffmpeg instead of mencoder, calling it using os.popen(). You can also use the "commands" module, but I prefer the first one. Bye, Massimo -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Starting an external, independent process from a script

2007-03-13 Thread Gabriel Genellina
On 12 Mar 2007 16:13:51 -0700, Henrik Lied <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm trying to create a video uploading service (just to learn). The >> system is mostly based on Django, but the question I'm looking an >> answer for is more related to Python. En Tue, 13 Mar 2007 06:57:33 -0300, rishi path

Re: Starting an external, independent process from a script

2007-03-13 Thread Henrik Lied
Unfortunately, that didn't work either. The output is empty, I don't get a message, and I definitely don't get a converted file. 2007/3/13, rishi pathak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: You can do something like this: pid = os.fork() if pid != 0: os.execl("mencoder variables here and its arguments") el

Re: Starting an external, independent process from a script

2007-03-13 Thread rishi pathak
You can do something like this: pid = os.fork() if pid != 0: os.execl("mencoder variables here and its arguments") else: continue exec will replace the current child process with the given command and as we are doing fork the command will get executed in a child process.You can also use os.s

Re: Starting an external, independent process from a script

2007-03-13 Thread Henrik Lied
I've tried os.spawnv and os.spawn, but these give no error and no result. Henrik Lied skreiv: > Hi there! > > I'm trying to create a video uploading service (just to learn). The > system is mostly based on Django, but the question I'm looking an > answer for is more related to Python. > > So, the

Re: Starting an external, independent process from a script

2007-03-12 Thread Thinker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Henrik Lied wrote: > Hi there! > > > So - I want to spawn a new system process. I need some good > pointers on how to do this right. > > Any input? :-) > > Thanks a lot in advance! > You can try os.spawnl(). The url is http://docs.python.org/lib/os-pro