PIL speed and fear

[akhar]

What if I thread the gui and the image filters? will that get me a speed
boost?
Pete Shinners <shredwheat at mediaone.net> a écrit dans le message :
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> "akhar" <akhar at videotron.ca> wrote
> > I noticed that it tries to open
> > a dos session and then shows me the image in paint. I am afraid that for
> > phase two when I start using streams of images directly from the camera
that
> > their will be an enormous lag. Is it only because of windows? should I
be
> > using something else for realtime video streams like pySDL? or is it
windows
> > and I should use freebsd to do this?
>
> the problem is that the Image.show() command is pretty much a hack
> to make life easier. it saves the image as a temporary file, then
> launches a standard image browser in a separate process.
>
> this will not do at all for any kind of realtime system.
>
> your best bet is to use PIL's interface to Tkinter and make your own
> small gui, then i believe you can display the PIL images directly in
> the gui. (saving the save, launch process, load steps)
>
> i still don't know if that is going to be fast enough? not because
> PIL or python are too slow, but because thats a lot of image data to
> be analyzing and processing realtime
>
>