amaork / pylibmmal

Raspberry Multi-Media Abstraction Layer Library for Python

pylibmmal

Raspberry Multi-Media Abstraction Layer Library for Python.

Features

• Support Python 2+, Python3+

Installation

# First download Raspberry Pi GPU interfacing libraries and compile 

git clone https://github.com/raspberrypi/userland.git
cd userland && ./buildme

# Second copy `build` to /opt/vc
sudo cp build/* -a /opt/vc

# Finally install pylibmmal   
sudo python setup.py install

or

sudo make install

or

# Install with specify version python
sudo make install PYTHON=pythonX.X

or

sudo pip install git+https://github.com/amaork/pylibmmal.git

Usage

import time
import pylibmmal

# Display on hdmi port
graph = pylibmmal.MmalGraph(display=pylibmmal.HDMI)
graph.open('image_file_path')

# Wait
time.sleep(3)

# Close
graph.close()