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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

Installation prerequisites


Before we jump in to the main chapter, it is necessary to install the following packages.

Python

In this book we will use Python Version 2.6, or to be more specific, Version 2.6.4. It can be downloaded from the following location: http://python.org/download/releases/

Windows platform

For Windows, just download and install the platform-specific binary distribution of Python 2.6.4.

Other platforms

For other platforms, such as Linux, Python is probably already installed on your machine. If the installed version is not 2.6, build and install it from the source distribution. If you are using a package manager on a Linux system, search for Python 2.6. It is likely that you will find the Python distribution there. Then, for instance, Ubuntu users can install Python from the command prompt as:

$sudo apt-get python2.6

Note that for this, you must have administrative permission on the machine on which you are installing Python.

Python Imaging Library (PIL)

We will learn image-processing...