[Numpy-discussion] Loading a Quicktime moive (*.mov) as series of arrays

[Robert Kern]

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 10:19, Peter
<numpy-discussion at maubp.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> Sending this again (sorry Robert, this will be the second time
> for you) since I sent from a non-subscribed email address the
> first time.
>
> On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 7:12 PM, Robert Kern wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 19:10, Peter wrote:
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> Is there a recommended (and ideally cross platform)
>>> way to load the frames of a QuickTime movie (*.mov
>>> file) in Python as NumPy arrays? ...
>>
>> I've had luck with pyffmpeg, though I haven't tried
>> QuickTime .mov files:
>>
>>  http://code.google.com/p/pyffmpeg/
>
> Thanks for the suggestion.
>
> Sadly right now pyffmpeg won't install on Mac OS X,
> at least not with the version of Cython I have installed:
> http://code.google.com/p/pyffmpeg/issues/detail?id=44
>
> There doesn't seem to have been any activity on the
> official repository for some time either.

Oh, right, I had to fix those, too. I've attached the patches that I
used. I used MacPorts to install the ffmpeg libraries, so I modified
the paths in the setup.py appropriately.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless
enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as
though it had an underlying truth."
  -- Umberto Eco
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