I am revisiting the topic of exporting a frame of video to a PNG image file using Python and Gstreamer. In my previous post, I demonstrated how to use the gst-launch command to accomplish this, but I never could get it to work with just Python. Also, my previous pipeline only worked for ...

What do pickles and pythons have in common? Well, I'll get to that in a second. First, let's talk about application data. A key part of every program design is "how and where do I store my data". I have considered many different options for the OpenShot Video Editor, including XML, Embedded MySQL, and SqlLite.

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We've all heard the promise of GTK and how it will allow your application to be easily ported to other operating systems, such as Windows, Mac, Linux, and others. Something that you might not know is that if your GTK application uses the Gnome library, it will only work on Linux! This seems obvious ...

Once again I find myself struggling with Drag 'n Drop using GTK and Python. Why is it so difficult to get something working? Why do all the examples on the Internet suck? These are all good questions my friends, and today I bring some answers.

First of all, there are many different levels of ...

I have just learned a few more tricks on how to best work with GTK and Python. First, let me start at the beginning. After you create a Glade file (If you don't know what Glade is, read this), the next step is to create the Python code to load the Glade file (i.e. ...