I'm creating a lightweight application that should act as a shallow user interface to configure a camera and preview its video stream.
The stream comes YUV- or Motion-JPEG encoded (and maybe some others), and I would want to display it into a PySide6 'Image' item.
Being a dependency freak, and a spoiled one (C++ background), I don't want users to pay for what they don't use. So I want to avoid the client having to install anything that has not to do with this app: no image recognition, no web scraping, not even a random xkcd retriever or differential equation solver. Yes, some qt libraries.
Now when searching around, I find lots of ways to decode images with OpenCV.
This application is to do any linear algebra, nor computer vision. Is there a mature python library that is dedicated to video decoding? Or am I looking for the wrong thing? Should I turn to the operating system to look for decoders? Is this an XY problem?
