🔒 How do i hide the ffmpeg console?

[dreamy canyon]

this is the part of my code that uses ffmpeg to convert video to audio, and i just want to know if theres a way i could modify it so that it doesnt actually show the ffmpeg console pop up

[ionic shore]

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[pure moon]

Use CREATE_NO_WINDOW flag

Eg

subprocess.run(command, check=True, creationflags=subprocess.CREATE_NO_WINDOW)

Should do the job

[dreamy canyon]

lemme see

[pure moon]

You know there's a ffmpeg wrapper lib for python btw, yes?

[dreamy canyon]

what

[pure moon]

It'll make your life a tab easier

[dreamy canyon]

wdym

[pure moon]

https://pypi.org/project/python-ffmpeg/

Its a pythonic wrapper for ffmpeg

I thought you might have a use for that

[dreamy canyon]

idk i dont even know what that means

[pure moon]

A better way to use ffmpeg instead of subprocess.run

Although at core I guess they are doing the same thing, but for you as a user it gives you a mroe pythonic interface

[dreamy canyon]

doesnt matter

[pure moon]

K

[dreamy canyon]

i guess

idk

all i know is that it surely works this way

since this has gui and stuff

and i made an installer for it

i just want the final product to work without the ffmpeg console

it seems to work now

[marble narwhal]

Possibly just doing STDOUT=DEVNULL,STDERR=DEVNULL would work

[pure moon]

If you compile it with pyinstaller or nuitka you can disable console

[marble narwhal]

it's actually weird to me that a console can ever pop up... must be a windows thing.

[dreamy canyon]

but those use like idk how to say it

[pure moon]

Bundle with pyinstaller or compile with nuitka*

[dreamy canyon]

the thing is

i include ffmpeg with the installer

cause the other modules just wont work

[pure moon]

You can do it with nuitka and pyinstaller as well, bundle whatever you like

[dreamy canyon]

they can never find ffmpeg

[pure moon]

Make distribution easier, and also kind of make getting the source code harder

(or much harder if you go nuitka way)

[dreamy canyon]

idk this is too complicated for me 😅

[pure moon]

Okay. Nvm sorry for confusing you 😊

Glad it works!

[dreamy canyon]

anyways thanks it seems to work like that

[ionic shore]

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