[Image-SIG] Windows video

Robert Klimek klimek@grc.nasa.gov
Fri, 18 Oct 2002 09:46:19 +0000


On Thursday October 17 2002 8:45 pm, Jack Jansen wrote:
> On woensdag, oktober 16, 2002, at 09:07 , Roger & Arlene wrote:
> > Does anyone know if a library is available to write AVI video
> > files with
> > Python on Win32?  I shudder at the thought of having to wrap Video fo=
r
> > Windows myself, since I'm largely ignorant of C++!  Any
> > pointers on creating
> > video with Python would be useful.
>
> If you can live with Quicktime in stead of AVI then there's a
> little-known solution (little known because I did the work two
> years ago but never advertised it): the Python quicktime module
> (included in the standard distribution, but usually enabled only
> in MacPython and on OSX) will work on Windows with only a few
> minor modifications. But you will of course need to have
> Quicktime installed. Python's quicktime module is automatically
> generated and exports about 90% of the full API.
>
> If there's interest in this people could plead with me to fire
> up my Windows machine and put the mods into the repository,

I'm interested!  But I also need this to run on LInux... Is that asking f=
or=20
too much?

Bob