"Ch3ru5" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks all for replies . I am sorry for a confusion of the question . >But what i wanted to know is in general in any programming language , >how you go about writing a video converter .
The problem is that converting between video formats requires LOTS of manipulation of bitfields: pull 3 bits from here, pull 6 bits from here, insert 9 bits there. That kind of manipulation is easier in some languages than in others. For example, it makes sense in C and C++. It can be done in Python, although not as efficiently. It would be difficult in PHP. >The basic flow of code . that's it . I will look into the resources in >a particular language of my choice later . The basic flow depends on what formats you are converting between. To to MPEG-to-AVI, for instance, you would normally go through the whole MPEG decompression process to get to a series of bitmaps, then go through the whole AVI compression process to get a movie. If you are on Windows, you almost certainly want to use DirectShow to do this job. There is a DirectShow interface for Python. -- - Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
