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Use Python Imaging Library for digital image processing.

Create exciting 2D cartoon characters using Pyglet multimedia framework

Create GUI-based audio and video players using QT Phonon framework.

Get to grips with the primer on GStreamer multimedia framework and use this API for audio and video processing.

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Multimedia applications are used by a range of industries to enhance the visual appeal of a product. This book will teach the reader how to perform multimedia processing using Python. This step-by-step guide gives you hands-on experience for developing exciting multimedia applications using Python. This book will help you to build applications for processing images, creating 2D animations and processing audio and video. Writing applications that work with images, videos, and other sensory effects is great. Not every application gets to make full use of audio/visual effects, but a certain amount of multimedia makes any application a lot more appealing. There are numerous multimedia libraries for which Python bindings are available. These libraries enable working with different kinds of media, such as images, audio, video, games, and so on. This book introduces the reader to the most widely used open source libraries through several exciting, real world projects. Popular multimedia frameworks and libraries such as GStreamer,Pyglet, QT Phonon, and Python Imaging library are used to develop various multimedia applications.

What you will learn

How to develop utilities for some frequently needed image processing operations such as resizing, brightness and contrast adjustment, flipping and rotating images, and so on.

How to digitally enhance images using image filters.

How to blend images together, creating watermarks, thumbnails, and so on.

How to write audio and video file format conversion utilities.

How to combine two or more audio tracks, mixing audio and video tracks.

How to develop an MP3 file cutter tool to extract a portion of audio.

How to separate audio and video tracks.

How to develop programs to record sound, visualize audio tracks, add special audio effects such as fading , echo, and so on.

How to save video frames as still images.

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Mike Driscoll Oct 07, 2010

Disclaimer: Packt Publishing gave me a free ebook copy of this book.Python Multimedia:Beginner's Guide is supposed to be for beginners, however if you don't know Python and how to install 3rd party modules, then you shouldn't be reading this book. The author does a pretty good job telling the reader how to install them though. Anyway, I found the chapters on the Python Imaging Library (PIL) and Pyglet to be the most interesting. The author gives multiple examples of each that are practical and give the reader some concrete things to do with the libraries.On the other hand, the book is poorly edited with lots of awkward prose that can make it difficult to read. There are also a couple instances where it looks like some automated system pasted error messages right in the text. I wrote a more in-depth review on my blog here:[...]

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Juho Vepsäläinen Sep 01, 2010

Disclaimer: I received a digital review copy of this book from the publisher, Packt Publishing.As can be inferred from the title the book has been aimed primarily for beginners. This shows in the pragmatic approach and verbose explanations used. The approach might have been even overly pragmatic as at times I felt it could have used separate sections for clarifying theoretical concepts used. As it is the theory has been interspersed within the examples discussed.The book provides a look at a nice variety of different multimedia related libraries ranging from PIL and Pyglet to GStreamer. In addition PyQt is used to construct several user interfaces.I think it would have been nice and fitting if the book had provided an overview of the available libraries and their capabilities. As it is it's up to the reader to seek them out and figure out which ones to use in case the ones reviewed in the book don't do the trick.There were times when the author's narrative felt a bit overbearing and perhaps too verbose. I would have appreciated smaller and more focused paragraphs to make it easier to read. I guess this is one of those issues that's just up to personal preference, though.

Peter Gavin Mar 29, 2013

This book is that I read ever before unique and useful.Nice book I like it.Hope this book can upgrade version.

Python Multimedia: Learn how to develop Multimedia applications using Python with this practical step-by-step guide

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