lite_media_core

A streamlined Python framework for developers to validate, control, and inspect media workflows.

Documentation: https://rdelillo.github.io/lite_media_core/

✨ What is lite_media_core?

lite_media_core is a minimalist, developer-focused Python framework for handling media operations simply and intuitively. Designed to be lightweight, easy to integrate, and powerful enough for real-world workflows.

Whether you're building media automation tools, integrating transcoding features, or scripting quick metadata checkers, lite_media_core helps you get there faster with less friction.

🌟 Features

• Clean and intuitive API: Handles image, image sequence, video, audio... Get started in seconds
• Powered by MediaInfo: Delivers accurate, detailed metadata across formats
• Plug-and-play utilities: Built-in helpers for timecode, resolution, and frame rate settings
• Cross-platform: Windows, macOS, Linux
• Tested and linted

Practical Use Cases

lite_media_core helps automate key media validation tasks across ingest, quality control, and delivery workflows.

• ✅ Validate media against client specs: Check resolution, frame rate, codec, pixel format, and embedded timecode.
• 🎞️ Detect issues in image sequences: Find missing frames or inconsistent resolutions before ingest or export.
• 🎬 Inspect QuickTime files: Verify color range settings (video vs full) or codec compatibility for web or broadcast delivery.

⚡ Quick Start

pip install lite_media_core

Inspect an image sequence:

from lite_media_core import ImageSequence

# Load a media using lite_media_core
media = ImageSequence("/path/to/sequence.1001-1005.exr")

# Read sequence properties if it exists.
if media.exists:

    # Print basic media properties
    print(f"Loaded media: {media.path}")
    print(f"Resolution: {media.resolution}")

    print(f"Frame range: {media.frame_range}")

    # (Optional) Full metadata
    print("Full metadata:")
    print(media.metadata)

💡 Roadmap

• Support media from URL via embedded features
• Automated batch media workflows
• Lightweight CLI or API utilities

🎁 Credits

This project builds on powerful open-source tools:

• MediaInfo: cross-platform media metadata engine
• pymediainfo: python bindings to MediaInfo
• fileseq: image sequence handling with frame padding
• timecode: precise and robust timecode utilities

💻 For Developers

Clone and install in dev mode:

git clone https://github.com/rdelillo/lite_media_core.git
cd lite_media_core
pip install -e .

Run tests:

pip install -e .[testing]
pytest

Run linter:

pip install -e .[lint]
ruff check .