Getting realtime output from ffmpeg to be used in progress bar (PyQt4, stdout)

Question

I\'ve looked at a number of questions but still can\'t quite figure this out. I\'m using PyQt, and am hoping to run ffmpeg -i file.mp4 file.avi and get the out

Answer 1

You can also do it pretty clearly with PyQt4's QProcess (as asked in the original question) by connecting a slot from the QProcess to a QTextEdit or whatever. I'm still pretty new to python and pyqt but here's how I just managed to do it:

import sys
from PyQt4 import QtCore, QtGui

class ffmpegBatch(QtGui.QWidget):
    def __init__(self):
        super(ffmpegBatch, self).__init__()
        self.initUI()

    def initUI(self):
        layout = QtGui.QVBoxLayout()
        self.edit = QtGui.QTextEdit()
        self.edit.setGeometry(300, 300, 300, 300)
        run = QtGui.QPushButton("Run process")

        layout.addWidget(self.edit)
        layout.addWidget(run)

        self.setLayout(layout)

        run.clicked.connect(self.run)

    def run(self):
        # your commandline whatnot here, I just used this for demonstration
        cmd = "systeminfo"

        proc = QtCore.QProcess(self)
        proc.setProcessChannelMode(proc.MergedChannels)
        proc.start(cmd)
        proc.readyReadStandardOutput.connect(lambda: self.readStdOutput(proc))


    def readStdOutput(self, proc):
        self.edit.append(QtCore.QString(proc.readAllStandardOutput()))

def main():
    app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)
    ex = ffmpegBatch()
    ex.show()
    sys.exit(app.exec_())

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()