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recordingprocessing/libhandbrake.py

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# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
Created on Fri Jul 5 14:11:00 2013
@author: shanef
Library to interface with handbrake to encode video files
"""
import subprocess
def encode(handbrakecommand, inputfile, outputfile, waitforcompletion=True,
logger=None):
"""
Encode inputfile and save the result to outputfile. handbrakecommand is
a list of strings containing the arguments to handbrakecli.
"""
handbrakecommand[3] = inputfile
handbrakecommand[5] = outputfile
if logger:
logger.debug("Handbrake command is: {0}".format(handbrakecommand))
process = subprocess.Popen(handbrakecommand)
if waitforcompletion:
process.wait()
if logger is not None:
logger.info("Handbrake completed with return code {0}".format(
process.returncode))
return process.returncode
return None