# vidsrc

**Repository Path**: mirrors_cgohlke/vidsrc

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: vidsrc
- **Description**: Video frameserver for NumPy.
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: BSD-3-Clause
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2020-11-23
- **Last Updated**: 2026-05-17

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## README

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Video Frameserver for Numpy
===========================

Vidsrc is a Python library to read frames from video files as numpy arrays
via the DirectShow IMediaDet interface.

:Author: `Christoph Gohlke <https://www.cgohlke.com>`_
:License: BSD-3-Clause
:Version: 2026.1.18

Quickstart
----------

Install the vidsrc package and all dependencies from the
`Python Package Index <https://pypi.org/project/vidsrc/>`_::

    python -m pip install -U vidsrc

See `Examples`_ for using the programming interface.

Source code and support are available on
`GitHub <https://github.com/cgohlke/vidsrc>`_.

Requirements
------------

This revision was tested with the following requirements and 
dependencies (other versions may work):

- `CPython <https://www.python.org>`_ 3.11.9, 3.12.10, 3.13.11, 3.14.2 64-bit
- `NumPy <https://pypi.org/project/numpy/>`_ 2.4.1
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 (build)
- DirectX 9.0c SDK (build)
- DirectShow BaseClasses include files (build)
- DirectShow STRMBASE.lib (build)

Revisions
---------

2026.1.18

- Use multi-phase initialization.

2025.8.1

- Drop support for Python 3.10, support Python 3.14.

2025.1.6

- Add type hints.
- Drop support for Python 3.9, support Python 3.13 and NumPy 2.

2024.1.6

- Support Python 3.12.
- Drop support for Python 3.8 and NumPy 1.22 (NEP 29).

2022.9.28

- Update metadata.

2021.6.6

- Drop support for Python 3.6 (NEP 29).
- Fix compile error on PyPy3.

2020.1.1

- Drop support for Python 2.7 and 3.5.

Notes
-----

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``.

Examples
--------

.. code-block:: python

    >>> 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)