Hello Ashot, > I need to write a video analysis tool which extracts statistics from > microsocope video. Essentially what I need is to translate the video data > into numerical matrices. I have been using Python for the past 1.5 years > anytime I could for absolutely everything, because it has every library > imaginable... Alas, I can not find a library for decoding video/using > codecs. The only solution I have been able to come up with is to create > an image sequence and load those in with PIL, however this is not really > feasible as the images are too large (nor is it proffessional). > > Is there a library or project that I have missed, or is there a way > to incorporate something like vfw.lib directly? If there isn't I > think > this would be a pretty large whole in Python's arsenal. Thanks in advance > for any help.
1. There is PyMedia (http://pymedia.org/) 2. Maybe you can use the code from VLC (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/) (using SWIG/PyBoost/Pyrex ...) HTH. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Miki Tebeka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://tebeka.bizhat.com The only difference between children and adults is the price of the toys -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list