DV AVI frame extraction with Python?

[Igor]

Can anybody point at package for Python that can allow to open DV AVI
file and extract frames from it? Preferrably frames should be
converted into PIL images or saved as files in one of the standard
formats.

It seems like pyMedia can probably do this. If it's so, can anybody
point at code samples for AVI manipulation in pyMedia? Unfortunately
the documentation seems to be very skimpy.

Thank you
--Igor

 

[Roger Binns]

Can anybody point at package for Python that can allow to open DV AVI
file and extract frames from it?

You can use ffmpeg (which pymedia is based on) to convert the file
to a motion jpeg (tell it use extension mjpeg). A motion jpeg file
is roughly each frame as a seperate jpeg image all concatenated together.

Roger

 

[Igor]

You can use ffmpeg (which pymedia is based on) to convert the file

to a motion jpeg (tell it use extension mjpeg). A motion jpeg file
is roughly each frame as a seperate jpeg image all concatenated together.

Thank you, Roger. It could be a solution. But I would still try to
find conversion as lossles as possible.