Oh man that would be awesome! Unfortunately Pygame can't do that (unless I'm missing something)...
Anyone else? On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 9:45 AM, Charles Cossé <cco...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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/>) >> > > -- *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/>)
