On 7 Jun, Nick Matsakis wrote:
> I'm working on a research project involving real time image processing
> on video streams. I need an image processing library, and so wondered
> whether the gimp might fit my needs. I have two questions which will
> help me determine if this is indeed the case.
Forget about GIMP. Currently the image processing is contained in
something we call the core which isn't a library and can hardly be
used without user interface. The only possibility you'd have to use
it for your needs is to write some script which utilizes GIMP core.
> 1) Is there any documentation on the gimp source above and beyond the
> source itself?
libgimp is documented in the source tree in the directory devel-docs
and there's some misc documentation in docs but since libgimp can't
be used for imageprocessing it possible isn't of much interest to you.
> 2) Is there any reason to think this should be impossible? I'd like to
> do some pixel-level conversions and perhaps some more complicated
> stuff at 320x240 and 20-30fps. I'm using a PIII 700.
The pixelconversions you mentioned would have to be VERY simple to
achieve that speed. Maybe you should try some library like imlib
gdk-pixbuf or imlib2 which are able to do simple transformations too
and are a lot easier to utilize and faster for such a purpose.
--
Servus,
Daniel
