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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 – a simple bowling animation


Let's develop the code for this application. As mentioned earlier, a big chunk of the code comes from the Single Image Animation section. So we will only discuss the new and modified methods needed to create a bowling animation.

  1. Download the Python source file BowlingAnimation.py from the Packt website. The overall class design is the same as the one developed in the Single Image Animation section. We will only discuss the new and modified methods. You can review the rest of the code from this file.

  2. Also, download the image files used in this project. These files are ball.png and pin.png. Place these files in a sub-directory images. The images directory should be placed in the directory in which the above Python source file is located.

  3. The __init__ method of the class is identical to that of class SingleImageAnimation. The only change here is that it initializes the following flags:

    self.paused = False
    self.pinHorizontal = False

    The flag self.pinHorizontal...