Ryan J wrote:
Hello Python gurus!
I am trying to
1) Read and decode video streams from internet.
2) Store them in a buffer.
3) Eventually convert them into data that can be used in Cycling '74's
Jitter.
If anyone has any idea how to start with this, that would be great! I have
limited experience with Python, but I have a bit of exposure to the urllib
and urllib2.
Do you have a URL for the video stream? Is it a http or https URL that
points directly to a .mov or other video file? Then you just use urllib
and/or urllib2 to connect to that URL and read data. You can write that
data into either memory or directly to a file on disk.
I have no idea what Cycling '74's Jitter is, or what formats it expects.
I suggest you use existing tools like mencoder to convert the video into
whatever format is appropriate. Re-writing a video converter tool in
Python will be a huge job, and it likely too slow to be usable.
If the URL is a secret, proprietary protocol like MMS or RTSP, you will
need to find some library to handle the protocol, or possibly reverse
engineer it yourself. Good luck with that.
--
Steven
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