Capture subprocess output
- by schneck
Hi there,
I learned that when executing commands in Python, I should use subprocess.
What I'm trying to achieve is to encode a file via ffmpeg and observe the program output until the file is done. Ffmpeg logs the progress to stderr.
If I try something like this:
child = subprocess.Popen(command, shell=True, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
complete = False
while not complete:
stderr = child.communicate()
# Get progress
print "Progress here later"
if child.poll() is not None:
complete = True
time.sleep(2)
the programm does not continue after calling child.communicate() and waits for the command to complete. Is there any other way to follow the output?
