[Tutor] Allow only one instance of a process

[Vince Spicer]

simple solution would be to create a lock file before processing, 

lock = open("videoname.lck")
lock.close()





On Saturday 16 May 2009 8:26:31 pm Sylvain Ste-Marie wrote:
> I'm currently writing a script to batch convert video for my psp
>
> It basically looks into a folder for video and launch ffmpeg:
>
> ffmpeg -i "videoname" -f psp -r 29.97 -b 768k -ar 24000 -ab 64k -s
> 368x208 "videoname.mp4"
>
> my idea is basically to check for pid but how do i do that?
>
>
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