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Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 16:36:06 -0700
Subject: Re: Popen to get stdout and stderr for ffmpeg - No such file or directory ?
From: Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com>
To: goldtech <goldtech@worldpost.com>
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On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 4:07 PM, goldtech <goldtech@worldpost.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Trying to learn how to run a linux command and get the stdout and
> stderr. I'm trying the following:
>
>>>> cmd3 =3D r'ffmpeg -i /home/giga/Desktop/Guitar1.flv'
>>>> p =3D Popen(cmd3, stdout=3DPIPE, stderr=3DPIPE)
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> =C2=A0File "<pyshell#73>", line 1, in <module>
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0p =3D Popen(cmd3, stdout=3DPIPE, stderr=3DPIPE)
> =C2=A0File "/usr/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 623, in __init__
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0errread, errwrite)
> =C2=A0File "/usr/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 1141, in
> _execute_child
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0raise child_exception
> OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
>
> But:
>
>>>> if os.path.exists(r'/home/giga/Desktop/Guitar1.flv'):
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0print "exist"
<snip>
> Also if I run the exact command (cmd3) in the terminal it works OK.
> Why is it not finding the file? Thanks, help appreciated.

Read The Fine Manual:
http://docs.python.org/library/subprocess.html#subprocess.Popen :
"On Unix, with shell=3DFalse (default): [...] If a string is specified
for args, it will be used as the name or path of the program to
execute; ***this will only work if the program is being given no
arguments.***" (emphasis added)

The system is interpreting the entire command string as the path to an
executable; obviously there's no directory named "ffmpeg -i ", so the
path is invalid, hence the error.

Try instead:
cmd3 =3D ['ffmpeg', '-i', '/home/giga/Desktop/Guitar1.flv']

Cheers,
Chris
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