Video display, frame rate 640x480 @ 30fps achievable?

[Peter Hansen]

Guenter wrote:
> I need to develop an application that displays video 640x480 16-bit per
> pixel with 30 fps.
> 
> I would prefer to do that with Python (wxPython) but don't have any
> experience whether it is possible to achieve that frame rate and still
> have some resources for other processing left? My development PC would
> be a Celeron 1 GHz. The final system could be a faster system.

At the very least, you should be looking at Pygame instead, as wxPython 
is not really intended for that kind of thing.  Whether or not you can 
manage the desired frame rate depends entirely on what you will be 
displaying... a single pixel moving around, full-screen video, or 
something in between? ;-)

See for example 
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-May/106546.html for 
one first-hand report on frame rates possible with Pygame (whether it's 
accurate or not I don't know).

-Peter