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Python Multimedia

By : Ninad Sathaye
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Python Multimedia

By: Ninad Sathaye

Overview of this book

Multimedia applications are used by a range of industries to enhance the visual appeal of a product. This book will teach the reader how to perform multimedia processing using Python. This step-by-step guide gives you hands-on experience for developing exciting multimedia applications using Python. This book will help you to build applications for processing images, creating 2D animations and processing audio and video. Writing applications that work with images, videos, and other sensory effects is great. Not every application gets to make full use of audio/visual effects, but a certain amount of multimedia makes any application a lot more appealing. There are numerous multimedia libraries for which Python bindings are available. These libraries enable working with different kinds of media, such as images, audio, video, games, and so on. This book introduces the reader to the most widely used open source libraries through several exciting, real world projects. Popular multimedia frameworks and libraries such as GStreamer,Pyglet, QT Phonon, and Python Imaging library are used to develop various multimedia applications.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Python Multimedia Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface

Chapter 2. Working with Images

In this chapter, we will learn basic image conversion and manipulation techniques using the Python Imaging Library. The chapter ends with an exciting project where we create an image processing application.

In this chapter, we shall:

  • Learn various image I/O operations for reading and writing images using the Python Imaging Library (PIL)

  • With the help of several examples and code snippets, perform some basic manipulations on the image, such as resizing, rotating/ flipping, cropping, pasting, and so on.

  • Write an image-processing application by making use of PIL

  • Use the QT library as a frontend (GUI) for this application

So let's get on with it!