Question

I’m looking for a python module which can display jpg or png file to /dev/fb0 directly.

I hope the the module can call and display the picture on screen by like this:

show_photo(path_to_jpg, x, y, dev='/dev/fb0')

I had searched such kind of python module on google for several days, and I found the link: [Module] Python Frame Buffer, but the website was not found.

Now, I’m using C program and call by os.system() function, and it is too slow. Does there has a python module which can show the picture directly to frame buffer, and support static picture, marquee? It will be better if the module also support playing video file like mplayer.

Answer 1

Maybe you may use pygame.

http://www.pygame.org/wiki/about

Pygame uses either opengl, directx, windib, X11, linux frame buffer,
and many other different backends…

UPDATE:
Simple example:

import pygame
import sys
import time

pygame.init()

size = (pygame.display.Info().current_w, pygame.display.Info().current_h)
black = 0, 0, 0

screen = pygame.display.set_mode(size)

ball = pygame.image.load("ball.gif")
ballrect = ball.get_rect()

screen.fill(black)
screen.blit(ball, ballrect)
pygame.display.flip()

time.sleep(5)

Run:

SDL_NOMOUSE=1 python ./ball.py