Creating barrel distortion of video

[semeon.risom at gmail.com]

On Tuesday, 8 March 2016 19:46:18 UTC-6, Ben Finney  wrote:
> semeon.risom at gmail.com writes:
> 
> > This may seem like an odd request for the main python google group
> 
> (Note that this is not a Google group. Google may be presenting this
> forum to you, but it's not exclusive to Google and many of us don't
> participate there.)
> 
> > but I thought this question might have answers coming from different
> > backgrounds that utilize python.
> 
> Your question is fine for this forum. Thanks for investigating 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?
> 
> I have no experience with such a library. Possible candidates include:
> 
> * moviepy: Video editing with Python
>   <URL:https://pypi.python.org/pypi/moviepy/>
> 
> * pygame: wrapper module for the SDL multimedia library
>   <URL:https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Pygame/1.7.1>
> 
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> Ben Finney

I'll check both of these out. Thank you