[Live-devel] Starting up

[Ben Rush]

I would say go for it if it's something that interests you. That's the
beauty of open source: you can do those things. Of course, the downside is
any Python wrappers/bindings may go stale as Ross (
http://www.rossfinlayson.com/) continues to push live555 in his own
direction. I don't want to discourage your efforts, but since I'm perfectly
comfortable in C++ any Python work doesn't interest me, personally. Maybe
you've got a great idea on your hands, though, I don't know.

Best of luck,
Ben

On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 8:14 PM IR at InterStrat.com <IR at interstrat.com> wrote:

> Thanks Jeff and Ben.
> Given that the live555 will be the core library for the video streaming
> server would it make sense therefore to prototype in Python and transfer to
> C++ when reasonably clean. Perhaps Boost Python would help with this ? Are
> there good resources for a Python video streaming server using C++
> libraries ?
> For the live555 development community could this not add more hands on the
> job if there is a clear path to use Python as well ?
> Here is a pioneer in a very simple application
>
> http://blog.mikemccandless.com/2013/11/pulling-h264-video-from-ip-camera-using.html
>
> Would welcome your thoughts !
> Thanks
> IR
>
>
>
> On Feb 8, 2016, at 7:27 PM, Jeff Shanab <jshanab at jfs-tech.com> wrote:
>
> I was wondering too becasue, my first thought is keep it simple and work
> in the language the library supports. (Software engineering for me is "same
> stuff, differnt language")
>
> c/c++ is the best cross platform compiled language for me
> python is the best cross platform scripting language for me.
>
> Having said that... Python was originally written on a c base and there
> are some bindings.
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/145270/calling-c-c-from-python
>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 6:11 PM, Ben Rush <ben at ben-rush.net> wrote:
>
>> I honestly think you're trying to put a square peg in a round hole here.
>> If you're planning to use Live555, unless someone has any evidence to the
>> contrary, I believe you should do everything in C++ and forgo trying to do
>> anything in Python.
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 10:29 PM IR at InterStrat.com <IR at interstrat.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Ben. Thanks for your clarifications and guidance.
>>> More startup questions.
>>> For a video-streaming server side application, how would one make the
>>> call between C++ libraries and  a Python environment ?
>>> Would the C++ libraries be called by Python ? C++ would be much faster
>>> of course.
>>> What would be best done in C++ and what in Python ?
>>> Thanks in advance
>>> IR
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Feb 7, 2016, at 12:43 AM, IR at InterStrat.com wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks very much Ben
>>> IR
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>> On Feb 7, 2016, at 00:14, Ben Rush <ben at ben-rush.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> I do not think you'll find much in the way of python support for
>>> Live555, if that's what you're asking. Otherwise you can look at other open
>>> source projects such as https://github.com/mhaller/pyffmpeg.
>>>
>>> Browsing the newsgroup has been the best documentation I've found, next
>>> to reading the source code itself (download the live555 source and look in
>>> the testProgs folder for sample applications).
>>>
>>> I wouldn't say extensive knowledge of C++ is important. If you
>>> understand class inheritance and are fluent enough in C++ to read the code,
>>> you should be fine. The server is built in such a way that you fill in the
>>> functions you need and that's about all.
>>>
>>> Otherwise read through the basics on the codes you plan on using
>>> (Wikipedia is your best bet).
>>>
>>> On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 10:09 PM IR at InterStrat.com <IR at interstrat.com> <
>>> IR at interstrat.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Guidance please on required background for using Live555.
>>>>
>>>> What are good Python sources for streaming media applications?
>>>> What level of C++ ?
>>>> Any other resources that are recommended to get going?
>>>> Thanks in advance
>>>>
>>>> IR
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