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i'm working with omxplayer in Python. Is there a way to filter the elapsed time shown by executing omxplayer with the '-s' parameter and save it as a string?

I'm avoiding using omxplayer-wrapper because this string i'm trying to get will actually going to be inside another program that is already executing omxplayer, and i would prefere to "recycle" the process instead of modifying the whole script just to use the wrapper. (if still want to know, i'm working with a modified version of this: https://github.com/jehutting/omxplayer-pir)

For example, i've got this piece of code that let me execute omxplayer from console with ./ command and print the result, but have no clue to achieve what i want to do.

#!/usr/bin/env python from subprocess import Popen videoFile = 'home/pi/filename.mov' execute = Popen(['omxplayer', '-s', videoFile])
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    Is it printing output continuously as it's playing, or do you just need the subprocess to finish and its output to then be returned? Either way, look at the FAQs in the Stack Overflow subprocess tag info page. Commented Dec 6, 2020 at 9:09
  • Both would be usefull because either displaying the data contiuously or in a "static" way, first i must get it inside a variable, am i right? Maybe the first case (the contiuous one) would be the ideal because of it's possible applications inside the script. Thanks for the link, i'll check it out right away! Commented Dec 6, 2020 at 9:18
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