Can you just call a GUI api that interfaces directly with the graphics card?
On 12/6/06, Tim Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ray Schumacher wrote: > I've been mulling screen capture code. I tried PIL's > ImageGrab().grab() (with pymedia) but find PIL's method to be pretty > slow, ~4grabs per second max with no other processes. > pymedia is pretty quick once I hand it the data. > How large is your screen? A 1600x1200 true-color desktop is 8 megabytes worth of pixels, and it can take tens of milliseconds just to copy it over the PCI bus to main memory. > There has to be another way to get a copy or buffer() of the screen > DC's data that is faster (I hope). > > I putsed around with win32gui > desktop = win32gui.GetDesktopWindow() > dt_l, dt_t, dt_r, dt_b = win32gui.GetWindowRect(desktop) > but couldn't see how to get at the data via the handle. > You can use BitBlt to copy it to a DIB, but it's not going to be very convenient to work with. -- Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. _______________________________________________ Python-win32 mailing list Python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
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