display image without writing to disk

[kcchesnut]

I'm writing a streaming script that shows thumbnails of the stream.
Right now, i'm downloading the thumbnail and then saving to disk before display.

Is there a way to display an image without having to write it to disk first?

Seems like i'd be able to just keep the image in memory to be displayed.

Thanks,
casey

[devo]

I was actually looking at doing something similar. Looking around I found that urllib.openurl(some_url) (http://docs.python.org/lib/module-urllib.html) may do the trick.

If your getting the same image over an over again you may wish to download it for performance reasons and load it from disk though.

[kcchesnut]

I haven't figured out how to pass that as a parameter to ControlImage.setImage() to be displayed?

All i've got to work so far is to save that resut to disk, and then pass the file path to ControlImage.setImage(diskPath)

What I assumed I could do would be something like this :
response = urllib2.urlopen(url)
imageBytes = response.read()
controlImage.setImageBytes(imageBytes)

Thanks,
casey

[devo]

Ah ok, it doesn't look like the ControlImage object supports that.

P.S. What type of streaming script are you writing?

[kcchesnut]

Internet TV (beta) streams from Media Center Edition
http://www.brains-N-brawn.com/xMceItv/

updated to support thumbnails.
submitted to xbmcscripts a couple days ago.

[devo]

looks good!