Re: [Python-Dev] SoC proposal: multimedia library

2007-03-26 Thread Navtej Singh
I would personally suggest limiting support and going for ffmpeg (via ctypes would be quickest, though a SWIG wrapping could make it more convenient). Python wrapper for FFmpeg using Pyrex is available on google code ( http://code.google.com/p/pyffmpeg/) ___

Re: [Python-Dev] SoC proposal: multimedia library

2007-03-26 Thread Andrew Bennetts
Lino Mastrodomenico wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I would like to participate as a student in google Summer of Code and > I'm interested in feedback on a multimedia library for Python. > > The library I propose should have the following features: > * the capability to extract and decompress vi

Re: [Python-Dev] SoC proposal: multimedia library

2007-03-26 Thread Greg Ewing
Pete Shinners wrote: > Will your image objects be transferrable to PIL, Pygame, PyOpengl, Numpy, > Pythonmagick, Pycairo, wxPython, etc? It would be best if this could avoid the > "fromstring/tostring" mojo that always requires and extra copy of the data for > each transfer. This would be an exce

Re: [Python-Dev] SoC proposal: multimedia library

2007-03-26 Thread Pete Shinners
Lino Mastrodomenico gmail.com> writes: > I would like to participate as a student in google Summer of Code and > I'm interested in feedback on a multimedia library for Python. > > The library I propose should have the following features: > * the capability to extract and decompress video and

Re: [Python-Dev] SoC proposal: multimedia library

2007-03-25 Thread Lino Mastrodomenico
2007/3/25, Terry Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > There is a Python wrapping of the cross-platform Simple Directmedia Library > (C) that is a major part of PyGame. Are you familiar with both and how > does your proposal improve on the current situation. Yes I know both Pygame and SMPEG (the SDL MPEG

Re: [Python-Dev] SoC proposal: multimedia library

2007-03-25 Thread Josiah Carlson
"Lino Mastrodomenico" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any interest in a library of this kind (inside or outside of > the stdlib)? For decoding, not many packages can currently match VLC. It has wrappers for most major GUI toolkits, and seems to be easily accessable via ctypes. There are al

Re: [Python-Dev] SoC proposal: multimedia library

2007-03-24 Thread Terry Reedy
"Lino Mastrodomenico" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Is there any interest in a library of this kind (inside or outside of | the stdlib)? | Suggestions? Criticism? There is a Python wrapping of the cross-platform Simple Directmedia Library (C) that is a major part

[Python-Dev] SoC proposal: multimedia library

2007-03-24 Thread Lino Mastrodomenico
Hello everyone, I would like to participate as a student in google Summer of Code and I'm interested in feedback on a multimedia library for Python. The library I propose should have the following features: * the capability to extract and decompress video and audio from a few common multimedi