Vidsrc is a Python library to read frames from video files as numpy arrays via the DirectShow IMediaDet interface.
| Author: | Christoph Gohlke |
|---|---|
| License: | BSD 3-Clause |
| Version: | 2024.1.6 |
Install the vidsrc package and all dependencies from the Python Package Index:
python -m pip install -U vidsrc
See Examples for using the programming interface.
Source code and support are available on GitHub.
This revision was tested with the following requirements and dependencies (other versions may work):
- CPython 3.9.13, 3.10.11, 3.11.7, 3.12.1
- Numpy 1.26.3
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 (build)
- DirectX 9.0c SDK (build)
- DirectShow BaseClasses include files (build)
- DirectShow STRMBASE.lib (build)
2024.1.6
- Support Python 3.12.
- Remove support for Python 3.8 and numpy 1.22 (NEP 29).
2022.9.28
- Update metadata.
2021.6.6
- Remove support for Python 3.6 (NEP 29).
- Fix compile error on PyPy3.
2020.1.1
- Remove support for Python 2.7 and 3.5.
The DirectShow IMediaDet interface is deprecated and may be removed from future releases of Windows (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/directshow/imediadet).
To fix compile
error C2146: syntax error: missing ';' before identifier 'PVOID64',
change typedef void * POINTER_64 PVOID64;
to typedef void * __ptr64 PVOID64;
in winnt.h.
>>> from vidsrc import VideoSource
>>> video = VideoSource('test.avi', grayscale=False)
>>> len(video) # number of frames in video
48
>>> video.duration # length in s
1.6016
>>> video.framerate # frames per second
29.970089850329373
>>> video.shape # frames, height, width, color channels
(48, 64, 64, 3)
>>> frame = video[0] # access first frame
>>> frame = video[-1] # access last frame
>>> for frame in video:
... pass # do_something_with(frame)