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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

Reading and writing images


To manipulate an existing image, we must open it first for editing and we also require the ability to save the image in a suitable file format after making changes. The Image module in PIL provides methods to read and write images in the specified image file format. It supports a wide range of file formats.

To open an image, use Image.open method. Start the Python interpreter and write the following code. You should specify an appropriate path on your system as an argument to the Image.open method.

>>>import Image
>>>inputImage = Image.open("C:\\PythonTest\\image1.jpg")

This will open an image file by the name image1.jpg. If the file can't be opened, an IOError will be raised, otherwise, it returns an instance of class Image.

For saving image, use the save method of the Image class. Make sure you replace the following string with an appropriate /path/to/your/image/file.

>>>inputImage.save("C:\\PythonTest\\outputImage.jpg")

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