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Python Multimedia

By : Ninad Sathaye
Book Image

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

Adjusting volume


One of the most common audio operations we perform is to adjust the volume level of a playing audio. Suppose you have a collection of your favourite songs on your computer. You have been adding songs to this collection from various sources over the years and have created a 'playlist' so that you can listen to them one after the other. But some of the songs start much louder than the others. Of course you can adjust the volume every time such songs start playing but that's not what you would like to do is it?? You want to fix this, but how? Let's learn how!

The volume element in GStreamer can be used to control the volume of the streaming audio. It is classified as a type of audio filter. Run gst-inspect-0.10 command on volume to know more details about its properties.

How will you adjust volume using the command-line version of GStreamer? Here is the command on Windows XP that accomplishes this. You should use forward slashes as the backward slashes are not parsed properly...