Super cool Ted. The video was indeed worth it...
And thanks for pointing out that distro with the video module enabled.
On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 4:26 PM, Ted Hunt <ted.h...@clear.net.nz> wrote:
>
> Thanks Luke for pointing this out.
>
> I've changed the code skip the movies if either the movie module is
> missing or there's a problem loading a movie.
>
>
> On 18/12/2014 4:09 a.m., Luke Paireepinart wrote:
>
> Looks like Pygame has a movie lib no matter what, but in some cases it
> raises a NotImplementedError based on your platform. So checking if it
> imports isn't enough, you'd have to catch the NotImplementedError when
> creating the movie and skip the movie during that function.
>
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 6:49 AM, diliup gabadamudalige <dili...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> i used..
>> try:
>> from pygame import movie
>> print "ok"
>> except:
>> print"error"
>>
>> and it printed ok so that means i have the movies module. But then why
>> all those errors?
>> are you using absolute paths for the movies?
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 6:04 PM, diliup gabadamudalige <dili...@gmail.com
>> > wrote:
>>>
>>> Warning (from warnings module):
>>> File "C:\Users\diliupg\Desktop\TimeTrek\TimeTrek.py", line 2948
>>> movie = pygame.movie.Movie("movies/PreIntro.mpg")
>>> RuntimeWarning: use movie: No module named movie
>>> (ImportError: No module named movie)
>>>
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>> File "C:\Users\diliupg\Desktop\TimeTrek\TimeTrek.py", line 2969, in
>>> <module>
>>> main()
>>> File "C:\Users\diliupg\Desktop\TimeTrek\TimeTrek.py", line 87, in main
>>> preintro()
>>> File "C:\Users\diliupg\Desktop\TimeTrek\TimeTrek.py", line 2948, in
>>> preintro
>>> movie = pygame.movie.Movie("movies/PreIntro.mpg")
>>> File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pygame\__init__.py", line 102,
>>> in __getattr__
>>> raise NotImplementedError(MissingPygameModule)
>>> NotImplementedError: movie module not available
>>> (ImportError: No module named movie)
>>>
>>> above are the errors i got.
>>>
>>> I have Pygame 1.9.2 pre release.
>>> from where did you download ver.1.9.2?
>>> please send the link so that i can install that and play your game!
>>> :)
>>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 5:46 PM, diliup gabadamudalige <
>>> dili...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> hi ted!
>>>>
>>>> I am now downloading your game.
>>>> You can try some of mine here.
>>>>
>>>> http://soft.diliupg.com/
>>>>
>>>> at the above link you will fine 3 games
>>>> 1.Space Gladiator
>>>> 2.Space Gladiator II
>>>> 3.Earthwar
>>>>
>>>> they are not very large to download. Play them and let me know whaqt
>>>> you think.
>>>> I will play your game and give you feed back.
>>>> :)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 9:22 AM, Ted Hunt <ted.h...@clear.net.nz>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks Michael for your comments.
>>>>>
>>>>> Does anyone know what the future is for the movie module ? Will be
>>>>> eventually be included in all builds ? It would be great if it also
>>>>> supported a more modern video format (mpeg1 is not great for HD movies).
>>>>>
>>>>> Or should I be looking for an alternative ? I did see a post somewhere
>>>>> about piping data to/from ffmpeg ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>
>>>>> Ted.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 16/12/2014 12:46 a.m., Michael Lutynski wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello Ted,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That’s quite the effort, and I’d love to give it a go on my Kubunutu
>>>>>> Linux setup, but the pygame movie module isn’t implemented here, so my
>>>>>> pygame cannot play the .mpg videos :(
>>>>>>
>>>>>> python TimeTrek.py
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> TimeTrek.py:2948: RuntimeWarning: use movie: No module named movie
>>>>>> (ImportError: No module named movie)
>>>>>> movie = pygame.movie.Movie("movies/PreIntro.mpg")
>>>>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>>>> File "TimeTrek.py", line 2969, in <module>
>>>>>> main()
>>>>>> File "TimeTrek.py", line 87, in main
>>>>>> preintro()
>>>>>> File "TimeTrek.py", line 2948, in preintro
>>>>>> movie = pygame.movie.Movie("movies/PreIntro.mpg")
>>>>>> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pygame/__init__.py", line
>>>>>> 102, in __getattr__
>>>>>> raise NotImplementedError(MissingPygameModule)
>>>>>> NotImplementedError: movie module not available
>>>>>> (ImportError: No module named movie)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It would be great if you could get an account on pygame.org so you
>>>>>> could post your game there for discovery and feedback.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Can anyone here help Ted showcase his game on pygame.org?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Michael
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon : Dec 15, 2014 4:12:10 PM you wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi guys,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I've been unsuccessful at getting registered on pygame.org, so I
>>>>>>> thought
>>>>>>> I'd post a link to my game here. Sorry if that's the wrong thing to
>>>>>>> do.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> My game (Time Trek) is based on a game I played on the TRS-80 (micro
>>>>>>> computer from the late 70s). I've updated... everything a bit :-)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Here's a link to download it :-
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://mega.co.nz/#!QZMTgR6S!4DJQ8KvQ5VdXwnCKIR63ouU2ng0z7Q93c4kzE3A1foo
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It requires python 2.7 and a pygame 1.9.2 that contains the movie
>>>>>>> module
>>>>>>> (http://pygame.org/ftp/pygame-1.9.2a0.win32-py2.7.msi).
>>>>>>> Also at least a core 2 duo or better processor.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I hope you enjoy it and any feedback is welcome.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Ted.
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>>>>
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>>>> http://soft.diliupg.com/
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