gsoc2009readinglist

extending python: http://docs.python.org/extending/index.html

c-api reference: http://docs.python.org/c-api/

here's a video about making python C extensions: http://us.pycon.org/2009/conference/schedule/event/35/

A short guide for Hacking pygame: Hacking pygame guide

pygame threading doc: http://docs.python.org/library/threading.html

this paper I wrote a couple of years ago does give an overview of python threading type stuff, but is a bit long: http://rene.f0o.com/%7Erene/stuff/europython2007/Taking%20advantage%20of%20multipl%20e%20CPUs%20for%20games%20-%20simply.pdf

Pygame has some bits of code for making process control and threads nicer to use in some ways. For threads there is pygame.threads.tmap and a basic worker pool.

There's also asynchronous subprocess extensions - so you can do things like timeout processes on windows (and other platforms). This would be good for controlling ffmpeg (or ffplay/mplayer).

a tutorial for using ffmpeg with SDL: http://www.dranger.com/ffmpeg/

an old ffmpeg tutorial, but has links to new ones: http://www.inb.uni-luebeck.de/~boehme/using_libavcodec.html

The lurkers guide to video is good: http://lurkertech.com/lg/

this is a good introduction to video stuff: http://diveintomark.org/tag/give

pymedia: http://pymedia.org/

ffmpeg API changed, so they just included ffmpeg; but then the project died, I think, because of that.

pyffmpeg: http://code.google.com/p/pyffmpeg/

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/QuickTime/Reference/QTRef_SequenceGrabber/Reference/reference.html

http://developer.apple.com/quicktime/qttutorial/seqgrab.html

Example Application:

http://www.skyfell.org/cocoasequencegrabber.html