Introduction

Pyrana is a pure-python package which provides easy, pythonic and powerful handling of multimedia files.

• easy: pyrana does not submerge you with tons of options and details, but is filled with sane defaults. pyrana aims to be multimedia processing what requests is for http.
• pythonic: pyrana wants to play nice and work well with the other well-established relevant python packages: Pillow, pygame, PySDL2, PyAudio, numpy compatibility is coming soon.
• powerful: pyrana provides an independent API, but is built on the great foundations provided by the powerful FFMpeg libraries.

pyrana is a modern, pure python package which is developed for python 3 and compatible with python 2.7, which takes great advantage of CFFI, so the compatibility with pypy is just one step away.

pyrana offers a minimum 100% unit-test and documentation coverage, and put great emphasis on small, yet complete and workable examples. Last but not least, pyrana is released under the very liberal ZLIB license.

More documentation about pyrana on this series of blog posts

Contents

• Tutorial: write a simple media player with pyrana
  • Overview
  • Opening the File
  • Reading the Data
  • A note on packets
  • Pygame and Video
  • Creating and using an Overlay
  • Drawing the Image
• The exception hierarchy of pyrana
• Types and flags
• More flags and enumerations for audio
• The fundamental unit in encoded media streams
• How to deal with media formats
• Decoding and encoding audio streams
• Decoding and encoding video streams

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page