movie from pictures

[Karim]

On 10/06/2016 23:31, alex wright wrote:
> 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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Why not use the split() method on the string of the command line.

Karim