This tutorial shows how to download videos from YouTube and to process their frames with Python; I have used this technique to create game barcode, an image created by sorting the colours in each frame of a particular video. You can see some of most intriguing here:
- FEZ (video, 2000px)
- Journey (video, 2000px)
- Super Mario World (video, 2000px)
- Fallout 4 (video, 2000px)
This tutorial is divided in four parts:
- Introduction
- Step 1. Processing a video
- Step 2. Processing a frame
- Step 3. Generating the barcode
- Step 4. Downloading from YouTube
- Conclusion