thanks for the suggestions. I'm not able to modify the mplayer command... and they do not create a fifo
and yes, i meant 'pid', sorry. -felix On 6/28/07, Will Maier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 08:01:18PM +0000, Seltzer wrote: > I need to send commands to a process that i did not start. > (mplayer specifically) I have the PIP of the process, and thats > about all. I assume you mean 'PID'. This is somewhat offtopic, but mplayer supports receiving commands from a FIFO: mplayer -quiet -slave -idle -input file=/home/you/.mplayer/fifo Then you can write commands (like 'loadfile song.ogg') to the fifo. Doing this in Python is as trivial as opening, writing to, and closing a file object. > Any ideas on how to do this in python? i need only to write to its > stdin, not read any information from it, and i don't really need > to know if my command worked for now, so error handling isn't > really an issue. I don't know of any magic to write to a running program's stdin. -- [Will [EMAIL PROTECTED]|http://www.lfod.us/] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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