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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 – MP3 cutter!


In this section we will develop a utility that will cut out a portion of an MP3 formatted audio and save it as a separate file.

  1. Keep the file AudioCutter.py handy. You can download it from the Packt website. Here we will only discuss important methods. The methods not discussed here are similar to the ones from earlier examples. Review the file AudioCutter.py which has all the necessary source code to run this application.

  2. Start the usual way. Do the necessary imports and write the following skeleton code.

    import os, sys, time
    import thread
    import gobject
    import pygst
    pygst.require("0.10")
    import gst
    
    class AudioCutter:
      def __init__(self):
        pass
      def constructPipeline(self):
        pass
      def gnonlin_pad_added(self, gnonlin_elem, pad):
        pass
      def connectSignals(self):
        pass
      def run(self):
        pass
      def printFinalStatus(self):
        pass
      def message_handler(self, bus, message):
        pass
    
    #Run the program
    audioCutter = AudioCutter()
    thread.start_new_thread...