movie from pictures

[alex wright]

I find shlex.split to be most useful to make my arguments a list in these
cases.
On Jun 9, 2016 3:28 PM, "MRAB" <python at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:

> On 2016-06-09 19:58, Peter Otten wrote:
>
>> Nev wrote:
>>
>> Thank you for your reply. I tried something like this in python code:
>>>
>>> from subprocess import call
>>> call(["ffmpeg -framerate 4/1 -start_number 1 -i
>>> C:\\Projects\\data2\\img_%05d.png -c:v libx264 -r 30 -pix_fmt yuv420p
>>> C:\\Projects\\data2\\movie.mp4"])
>>>
>>> But it did not work. I get FileNotFoundError: [WinError 2] The system
>>> cannot find the file specified..
>>>
>>
>> You have to pass the command-line arguments as separate items in the list:
>>
>> call(["ffmpeg",
>>       "-framerate", "4/1",
>>       "-start_number", "1",
>>       "-i", "C:\\Projects\\data2\\img_%05d.png",
>>       ... # and so on
>>       ])
>>
>> You should also give it the full path of ffmpeg.
>
> On the other hand, in-loop solution would be more preferable since it lets
>>> me to use variable names of the images and paths..
>>>
>>
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