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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 – play with Thumbnail Maker application


First, we will run the Thumbnail Maker application as an end user. This warm-up exercise intends to give us a good understanding of how the application works. This, in turn, will help us develop/learn the involved code quickly. So get ready for action!

  1. Download the files ThumbnailMaker.py, ThumbnailMakeDialog.py, and Ui_ThumbnailMakerDialog.py from Packt website. Place these files in some directory.

  2. From the command prompt, change to this directory location and type the following command:

            python ThumbnailMakerDialog.py
    

    The Thumbnail Maker dialog that pops up was shown in the earlier screenshot. Next, we will specify the input-output paths and various image parameters. You can open any image file of your choice. Here, the flower image shown in some previous sections will be used as an input image. To specify an input image, click on the small button with three dots . It will open a file dialog. The following illustration shows...