Chris Rebert wrote:
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Varnon Varnon <varnonz...@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm sure this is a simple problem, or at least I hope it is, but I'm
not an experience programer and the solution eludes me.
My realm of study is the behavioral sciences. I want to write a
program to help me record data from movie files.
Currently I have a program that can record the time of a keystroke so
that I can use that to obtain frequency, duration and other temporal
characteristics of the behaviors in my movies.
What I really want, is a way to start playing the movie. Right now I
have to play the movie, then switch to my program. I would love it if
it were possible for me to have my program send a message to quicktime
that says "play." Or any other work around really. If python could
play the movie, that would work just as well.
I'm using a mac btw.
Any suggestions?
import subprocess
subprocess.Popen(["open", "path/to/the/movie.file"])
Docs for the subprocess module: http://docs.python.org/library/subprocess.html
For information on the Mac OS X "open" command, `man open` from Terminal.
Or, for more control, look at pygame or other Python game frameworks.
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