On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 12:43:09PM -0500, Terry Hancock wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm writing a tutorial for Python using PyGame, and one thing > that bothers me is that I'm not entirely certain that my PyGame > is a plain installation. > > In fact, I'm pretty certain that I have some extras installed, > which makes me worry that some stuff that works for me may not > work for people reading the tutorial. > > I've already made sure to use BMP files exclusively for images. > > But what about sound files? Does pygame.mixer.music *always* > support Ogg files? I know my installation does. > > I'm using WAV files for sound effects, but > it's a lot nicer to use Ogg Vorbis for music. Is it safe to > assume that anyone who's installed PyGame will have this > ability?
Although it is theoretically possible to compile pygame's support libraries without support for PNG images and OGG sounds, such a build would be broken. --- James
