Re: [pygame] Displaying real time streaming images

[Pete Shinners <pete@shinners.org>]

Arthur Elsenaar wrote:
> I actually want to do progressive loading, so I need to read a chuck of 
> data from the socket, parse the data in PIL, pad the rest with 'empty' 
> data, feed it as a StringIO object back to pygame.
>
> Is this a correct approach to the problem?
Yes, if PIL supports the progressive loading that is going to be how you 
do it. I'm unfromiliar with this part of PIL, I would assume a good 
progressive loader would "pad" the image for you. Especially as some 
prograssive image formats are not linear top to bottom.

Once you have the PIL image loaded you can "tostring" it, then in Python 
"fromstring". These calls share compatable arguments in each library.