Hi All, I'm trying to access individual video frames of an AVI file from within Python 2.4 or 2.5 under Windows XP.
I have found this example code here for that does exactly what I want, using the windows avifile.dll but I am unable to find the AVIFile.h header... http://mail.python.org/pipermail/image-sig/2002-February/001748.html An alternative is to call into avifile.dll dynamically using ctypes, however under both Python 2.4 and 2.5 the following error happens: >>> from ctypes import * >>> windll.AVIFile Traceback (most recent call last): File "<pyshell#2>", line 1, in <module> windll.AVIFile File "C:\Python25\lib\ctypes\__init__.py", line 415, in __getattr__ dll = self._dlltype(name) File "C:\Python25\lib\ctypes\__init__.py", line 340, in __init__ self._handle = _dlopen(self._name, mode) WindowsError: [Error 193] %1 is not a valid Win32 application or WinDLL('c:/windows/system/AVIFILE.DLL') # same for .../system32/AVI... Traceback (most recent call last): File "<pyshell#2>", line 1, in <module> windll.AVIFile File "C:\Python25\lib\ctypes\__init__.py", line 415, in __getattr__ dll = self._dlltype(name) File "C:\Python25\lib\ctypes\__init__.py", line 340, in __init__ self._handle = _dlopen(self._name, mode) WindowsError: [Error 193] %1 is not a valid Win32 application This suggests that the dll is corrupt? However if I download and run the exe's from this example of a VB program calling the DLL, they work: http://www.shrinkwrapvb.com/avihelp/avihelp.htm I'm open to suggestions about the specific problems above or other ways of getting at the frames. I've tried pymedia but it also has issues. Regards Chris Saunter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
