Creating barrel distortion of video

[semeon.risom at gmail.com]

On Tuesday, 8 March 2016 19:53:10 UTC-6, Chris Angelico  wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 12:32 PM,  <semeon.risom at gmail.com> wrote:
> > This may seem like an odd request for the main python google group, but I thought this question might have answers coming from different backgrounds that utilize python.
> >
> > I'm trying to find a way of rendering an optical distortion on a video I will be presenting through the use of a head-mounted display. This distortion is necessary to correct the video due to the optics being used. Any advice on a module(s) or examples that already do this?
> >
> 
> Hi! Seems like a perfectly reasonable request; there are tens of
> thousands of packages listed on the Python Package Index, and this
> mailing list is one of the best places to find advice!
> 
> Are you playing the video in real-time, or is it stored in a file that
> you'll end up playing? If the latter, I would recommend looking into
> FFMpeg (or its fork AVConv), which has an insane number of features,
> and quite likely has what you want. It'll read in a file and write out
> a file.
> 
> If it's real-time, though, I'm not sure what's best to do. Do you know
> exactly what distortion you're trying to perform here?
> 
> ChrisA

It'll be a barrel distortion. I won't need real time processing, and I'll be sure to check out both FFMpeg and it's fork. Thank you!