Lino Mastrodomenico <l.mastrodomenico <at> 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 audio from a > few common multimedia file format; > * and, vice versa, it can create a compressed video file from a > series of still images and from uncompressed audio; > * it should have an interface as simple and pythonic as possible;
My main question is what is the image and sound container passed back to Python? This single thing along would be worth a SoC if it could be implemented across all libraries. 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. If the core numpy arrays could ever get added to the Python standard library, this problem would be mostly solved. I believe there was a SoC for Python last year for this exact array problem. Your proposal sounds dangerously close to implementing some file demuxing by yourself. Do not dare touch any of the file bits in your own library. This proposal should only be for getting data from existing decompression libraries into some general Python container. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
