[linux-audio-dev]Using python for small multimedia app ?

[RTaylor]

On 2004-06-03 14:54:56 +0000 Cournapeau David <cournape at enst.fr> wrote:

> 	I am discovering python, having looked for a matlab-like 
> environement. I am 
> wondering now if it is possible to do some small multimedia 
> applications with 
> it; more precisely, I would like to develop a scientific application 
> for 
> audio/video analysis. Basically, I need to show an avi
> video with a synchronised waveform view of the sound, and some other 
> features 
> views, like the pitch of the film voices (the actual pitch detection 
> doesn't 
> need to be computed on the fly).
> 
> 	Python seems really great for rapid developement, but I wonder if it 
> is 
> possible to play different media synchronously (the media decoding 
> itself 
> will be of course coded in C/C++) with it? Does anyone here have any 
> experience with multimedia and python ?

www.squeak.org

  It's not Python {but there are bindings available {should you need 
them}}.

  ...Should take you a couple of hours.

If you really have your heart set on python:

  http://pythoncard.sourceforge.net