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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

Summary


We learned a lot in this chapter about various audio enhancement and control techniques. The GStreamer multimedia framework was used to accomplish this. We specifically covered:

  • Audio controls: How to control the streaming of an audio data. With the help of coding illustrations, we learned about playback controls such as play, pause, seek, and stop. These controls were then used in a project where a portion of an audio was extracted.

  • Adding effects: Enhancing the audio by adding audio effects such as fade-in, echo/reverberation, and so on.

  • Non-linear audio editing: How to combine two or more audio streams into a single track. This was done in one of the projects we undertook.

  • Audio mixing technique to merge multiple mono channel audio streams into a single interleaved audio.

Additionally, we also learned techniques such as visualizing an audio. This concludes our discussion on audio processing in Python using GStreamer framework.

In the next chapter, we will learn how to process videos...