As someone who does a lot of custom video processing, there is one crucial functionality I find lacking in almost all programming languages I come across:
1. Loading a video + audiotrack (e.g. Testvid.mkv) with 1 line of code 2. Having FAST read access to both the video frame pixels and audio samples 3. Being able to use the CPU/GPU (GLSL shaders for example) to process video pixels and audio sample data efficiently 4. Again, 1 code line easy video + audio save function with CODEC/Compression options We live in age DOMINATED by audiovisual content. Yet no serious programming language seems to come with good built in Audio/Video file Read/Process/Write support. I was thinking that Nim could be an exception to this. Imagine Nim being able to read/write common audio/video files with 1 line of code without having to call 3rd party libraries or .dlls. There are tens of thousands of real-world applications that require some form of custom realtime or offline image/audio/video processing. If Nim runs as fast as native C and had audio/video read/write capabilities baked into the core language, you could be looking at the new DARLING of the image/audio/video processing world. This is my suggestion to any Nim developers reading this forum - please add audiovisual capabilities into the core language itself. Everyone faced with having to code custom image/audio/video processing algos would thank you for this functionality. Currently, many people run to less-than-ideal solutions like Matlab, Videolab, Processing to do audiovisual processing with code. A fast compiled language like Nim with built-in read/write support for multimedia files could attract a tremendous number of people to Nim. Thanks For Reading, > VideoBuddha
