Quicktime in python

[Wesley Fraser]

Hey everyone.

Does anyone know if there has been a basic, ornot so basic
implimentation of quicktime in python? If not, is there a reasonably
straight forward way of accessing quicktime from python?

Thanks

Ugly

[Michael Hudson]

Re: Quicktime in python

Wesley Fraser <ugly_411@sympa tico.ca> writes:
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> Hey everyone.
>
> Does anyone know if there has been a basic, ornot so basic
> implimentation of quicktime in python? If not, is there a reasonably
> straight forward way of accessing quicktime from python?[/color]

I believe MacPython has a wrapper (and if you use PyObjC you should be
able to use the Cocoa movie classes). If you're on Windows, does it
have a COM interface? If you just want an easy way of playing a
movie, pygame can do that, but probably with less codec support.

Actually *implementing* QT in Python would seem to be a bit of a
fool's errand.

Cheers,
mwh

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[Wesley Fraser]

Re: Quicktime in python

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> Wesley Fraser <ugly_411@sympa tico.ca> writes:
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>> Hey everyone.
>>
>> Does anyone know if there has been a basic, ornot so basic
>> implimentation of quicktime in python? If not, is there a reasonably
>> straight forward way of accessing quicktime from python?[/color]
>
> I believe MacPython has a wrapper (and if you use PyObjC you should be
> able to use the Cocoa movie classes). If you're on Windows, does it
> have a COM interface? If you just want an easy way of playing a
> movie, pygame can do that, but probably with less codec support.
>
> Actually *implementing* QT in Python would seem to be a bit of a
> fool's errand.
>
> Cheers,
> mwh
>
> --
> The ultimate laziness is not using Perl. That saves you so much
> work you wouldn't believe it if you had never tried it.
> -- Erik Naggum, comp.lang.lisp
> --
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>
>[/color]
Actually what I am trying to do specifically is use my logitech camera
on Mac OS X. There is a wonderful driver macam outthere that supports
this and many many other cameras. It seems that the best way to access
this driver is via quicktime and cocoa. I am using the camera for
telescope control and imaging stars. If I can get this to work
properly, then having the code in python would make things a lot easier
for me. It's not that it has to be done in python, it's that I want it
to be done in python.

Thanks for the tips. The PyObc seems like it is just the trick!

Ugly