On Dienstag 29 Januar 2008, Brian Blais wrote:
> Is there a way to read frames of a movie in python?  Ideally,
> something as simple as:
>
> for frame in movie('mymovie.mov'):
>      pass
>
>
> where frame is either a 2-D list, or a numpy array?  The movie format
> can be anything, because I can probably convert things, but most
> convenient would be avi, mov, and flv (for youtube videos).

I'd look for Gstreamer python bindings.  Or run mplayer/mencoder with a "raw" 
format (e.g. yuv4mpeg or -ovc raw -vf format=bgr24/rgb15/...) using a pipe 
and processing the frames one by one. OK, that's no iterator-based interface 
yet, but one could probably hack that together in an hour or so.

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