What happens if you use movie.set_display to render to a surface instead of
the screen, and get what you need from the surface?
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Vero E. Arriola
<blackzafiro....@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have been trying to use pygame to access a video frame by frame and
> extract the pixel values. The frame is correctly rendered. However,
> numeric and numpy get an array of zeros when I try to get the info from the
> display. Is this a bug or am I missing something? The code I use is as
> follows:
>
> import pygame, sys
> from pygame.locals import *
>
> filepath = "esponja.mpg"
> pygame.init()
> pygame.mixer.quit()
> pygame.surfarray.use_arraytype("numpy")
>
> movie = pygame.movie.Movie(filepath)
> size = w, h = movie.get_size()
> screen = pygame.display.set_mode(size)
> movie.set_display(screen, Rect((0, 0), size))
>
> def play():
> i = 0
> frame_number = 0
> while(1):
> frame_number = movie.render_frame(i)
> frame = pygame.surfarray.array2d(screen) #copies
> print frame
> if frame_number < i:
> break
> i = i + 1
> movie.rewind()
>
> I am using ubuntu 8.10.
> Thanks
>
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