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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

Time for action – image file converter


With this basic information, let's build a simple image file converter. This utility will batch-process image files and save them in a user-specified file format.

To get started, download the file ImageFileConverter.py from the Packt website, www.packtpub.com. This file can be run from the command line as:

python ImageConverter.py [arguments] 

Here, [arguments] are:

  • --input_dir: The directory path where the image files are located.

  • --input_format: The format of the image files to be converted. For example, jpg.

  • --output_dir: The location where you want to save the converted images.

  • --output_format: The output image format. For example, jpg, png, bmp, and so on.

The following screenshot shows the image conversion utility in action on Windows XP, that is, running image converter from the command line.

Here, it will batch-process all the .jpg images within C:\PythonTest\images and save them in png format in the directory C:\PythonTest\images\OUTPUT_IMAGES.

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