On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Tyler Laing<trinio...@gmail.com> wrote: > Unfortunately, no, communicate does not prevent hanging: > http://docs.python.org/library/subprocess.html#subprocess.Popen.communicate > It says it waits for the subprocess to terminate :/ > > However, that mplayer slave mode looks awesome. How big would a statically > compiled mplayer executable be? The windows download, with smplayer gui is > 12.5 MB. Or should I create an mplayer backend that checks if mplayer has > been installed? > > -Tyler >
yeah, it would be an if installed deal. VLC is probably more widely installed than mplayer... but not sure if it can do a slave mode too... but I think it should be possible. http://wiki.videolan.org/VLC_command-line_help VLC is also much more commonly installed xplatform, eg on windows/mac/linux
