Hi Brian, Don't know if possible, but if i were you i'd investigate embedding your videos. Is there any html support in pygame? I don't know, personally, but if yes then that's the way i'd suggest ... good luck, Charles
On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 10:41 AM, Brian Madden <br...@missionpinball.com> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I have a Python app that's pretty much ready to go. Problem is that we > need to be able to play videos. To be honest I never really looked too deep > into Pygame's video support. I knew from the docs that it had to be MPEG-1 > and that if you wanted audio then it had to have exclusive control of > Pygame.media, so I kind of thought, "Ok, that's fine, I'll deal with all > that later." > > So now it's "later" and I'm dealing with it. :) > > Problem is that we cannot get videos converted to MPEG-1 in a way that > works reliably. We've gone through all the posts on this list and read a > lot. Sometimes the videos play, sometimes not, sometimes we get SDL errors, > sometimes we get garbage on the screen.. It's really kind of a mess. > > So I've started looking into options for non-MPEG1 videos and I wonder if > anyone has successfully done anything? > > I found a blog post where a guy wrote a simple app that uses Pyglet to > play the video and then for each frame it converts the Pyglet video frame > to a Pyglet texture (kind of like Pyglet's version of a Surface), converts > the pixels to a ctype, converts the ctype to the format Pygame can use, > converts it to an image, then blits it to the Pygame window surface. That > technically works but it's far too slow.. for hi-def videos we're only > getting about 10fps. > > So I wonder if there are any other alternatives? Like can we install SDL2 > and use PySDL2 to play the video and somehow convert that to a Pygame > surface? (I have no idea if surfaces between SDL1.2 and SDL2 are > compatible, or if so if it would be possible to get them into Pygame.) > > Or are there any other crazy ideas? > > To be honest if we can't figure this out then I think we're going to have > to go with something other than Pygame, which would be a lot of work, but I > don't know of any other alternatives? Unfortunately I don't know C or C++ > so I'm afraid I'm not much help in terms of contributing to Pygame. > > Has anyone successfully taken a Python project based on Pygame and > converted it to PySDL2? From what I've read it seems like there are many > similarities since they're both SDL, but I don't know how much "other" work > Pygame is doing, and whether if I recreated any of that in Python it will > be fast enough? > > Anyway, sorry I'm a bit all over the place. I wonder if anyone has any > thoughts to share? > > Thanks, > Brian > > -- > *Brian Madden* > Mission Pinball (blog <http://missionpinball.com> | twitter > <https://twitter.com/missionpinball> | MPF software framework > <http://missionpinball.com/framework> | sample games > <https://missionpinball.com/blog/category/big-shot-em-conversion/>) >
