More QuickTime

Posted by anonymous on Jun 26, 2007

I know it is very easy to export QT movies in NodeBox, but why can't it load and display them? Maybe syntax like:

import Movie
mov = Movie.movie('~/Movies/DSCN0001.mov')
mov.frames[0].draw(0, 0)

So Movie would be a module who has classes 'movie' and 'frame', once a movie is loaded into a variable, you can call variables 'frames', 'fps', 'tracks', 'annotations', etc. 'frames' would be a list of 'frame' instances, 'fps' would be the main track's frames per second, 'tracks' would be a list or dictionary of all of the track's names, codecs, etc. 'annotations' would be a list of the movie's built-in annotations. Class 'movie' would have an __init__ that loads a movie from a path. Class 'frame' would draw the frame at x, y, or could even be used as a canvas or layer in core image:

ci.canvas = mov.frames[0]

or

canvas.layer(mov.frames[0])

Now that would be a neat addition.