So, my little Python-WebM project is now public (it was already public but not publicised 
) and anyone can start reading and writing the Google WebM format for images.
Python-WebM is now public
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Python-WebM
The python-webm package is an interface to the Google WebM new video/image codec which promise a better compression of image and video data. The interface uses ctypes to call the libvpx/libwebm Google libraries installed in the system. At the moment only the libwebm library is wrapped and with some limitations.
Here a list of platforms with the current support status of the python-webm package:
- Windows: SUPPORTED
- Ubuntu: SUPPORTED
- Mac OS X: SUPPORTED
Below a list of prerequisites to use the python-webm package:
- Python 2.6+ (http://www.python.org)
- Python nose (http://code.google.com/p/python-nose)
- libwebp from sources (http://www.webmproject.org/code/#webp-repositories) or binary distribution for the target OS
- Python PIL (http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil)
Discover more about the project website at here
CTypes and Incomplete Types
Some days ago I was writing a DLL’s wrapper in ctypes and I came across of this typedef in the header file:
typedef struct _FILEHandle *FILEHandle; |
To translate this definition into ctypes is pretty straight-forward (if you already know the solution ).
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