Paolo Pantaleo wrote: > Well I need something like 5-10 fps. An issue is the comression > method: MPEG and friends aren't good (I think) for compressing stuff > with sharp borders. Maybe I could use A sequence of PNG images, but it > isn't a great solution.
You probably want to use is VideoCapture for capturing digital video from e.g. USB webcameras (videocapture.sourceforge.net), Twisted for asynchronous sockets (twistedmatrix.com), and PyMedia for video and audio codec (pymedia.org). For GUI and graphics there are a number of candidates, e.g. PyGTK or PyGame. Video conference is an I/O bound task (except for the audio/video codec), and you will consequently gain nothing by using C++ over Python. The only part that is CPU-bound part (where C++ could theoretically be better) is the media codec, but you can leave that to PyMedia's C extensions. Python will most likely not be the bottleneck! Sure, you could use C++ instead. However, you would quickly be frustrated with Windows' extremely complex native APIs. E.g. DirectShow for digital video capture, Winsock for asynchronous sockets, Microsoft's multimedia APIs for codec, and perhaps MFC for GUI. Using Python is a good advice! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
