[SciPy-User] Working with AVI video files in python

[Mike Sarahan]

OpenCV might also be of interest.
http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/

FWIW, it's in the ubuntu repositories.

If you decide to play with it, you might try the ctypes-opencv
wrapper.  I prefer it over the SWiG based wrapper that comes with
OpenCV by default - I find that it's a little less kludgy.
http://code.google.com/p/ctypes-opencv/

-Mike

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 6:02 AM, Christopher MacMinn <cmac at mit.edu> wrote:
>>> I have some videos (AVI files, MJPG encoding) that I would like to
>>> split into frames so that I can analyze them in scipy/numpy.
>
>> You may wish to try pyffmpeg:  http://code.google.com/p/pyffmpeg/
>
> This is the kind of thing I was looking for -- thanks!
>
> Best, Chris
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