Video Capture utility using Python - Question

[BroJobBiggs]

Hi there, apologies if this is posted in the wrong place this is my first post.

I've written a utility for doing video capture using Python.

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from os.path import expanduser home = expanduser("~") command =('screen:// :screen-fps=%s :screen-caching=50 :screen-top=0 ' ':screen-left=0 :screen-width=%s :screen-height=%s ' ':sout-udp-caching=0 :udp-caching=0 :rtsp-caching=0 :tcp-caching=0 ' '--sout=#transcode{vcodec=H264,vb=1800,scale=1,fps=%s,width=%s,height=%s}' ':std{access=file,dst=%s}' % (fps,w,h,fps,w,h,out)) call = '\"%s\" %s'%(path.replace('\\','/'), command) record = subprocess.Popen(call, shell=True)

So this allows me to record my screen - now two problems - first, VLC loads maximized instead of minimized like I want it, and in order to stop the recording I have to manually close the VLC window that opens. Can someone help me with a command stop the recording and exit? Or perhaps I'm going about this the wrong way altogether?

Thanks