Automate the Boring Stuff with Python: The Unreleased Audio/Video Chapter
2025-07-13
The third edition of "Automate the Boring Stuff with Python" includes an unreleased chapter on working with audio, video, and webcams. This blog post shares the chapter's content, detailing how to write Python code to record and play multimedia. It covers audio and video data formats, recording from webcams and microphones, playing audio files (using playsound and Pygame), downloading videos with yt-dlp, and editing videos and audio with ffmpeg. Learn to automate tasks like batch-processing video files, creating time-lapses, or building a photo booth feature into your applications.
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Multimedia Processing