Try to isolate the problem. It could be related to pygame or pymedia. Also try to use player.py as it has better error handling. Let me know, Dmitry/
----- Original Message ----- From: "Athanassios Protopapas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2006 2:48 AM Subject: Re: [Pymedia-users] Problems with pymedia examples - vplayer doesnot work > Dear pymedia users > > I have just downloaded and installed Windows executables for pymedia > 1.3.7.2 and pygame 1.7.1 on Windows 2000 with python 2.4, because I > want to be able to display short video clips as part of a larger > program. pymedia seemed like the simplest solution (given that the > main application interface is not in wxPython but in Tkinter). > > However, the vplayer example does not work, it always produces a black > window, presumably for video display, which comes up, displays > nothing, and disappears again soon; and this error message is printed > on the console: > > Main video loop has started. > () > Unhandled exception in thread started by > Error in sys.excepthook: > > Original exception was: > > In another Win2K machine, only the first of these lines is displayed > ("Main video loop...") and the same black window also comes up and > disappears. > I have looked through the mailing list and tutorials, I saw a > potentially relevant replay about overlay.pyd, and I also saw a > special pygame download with "overlay" in the filename. I downloaded > these files, however, they are obsolete (old versions of pygame and > python version 2.3 instead of 2.4) so they are of no use for me. > > Are there new versions of these files, or is there another solution to > the problem? As I said, all I need to do is to display video clips > from within another program. Ideally this would be as an overlay on a > Tkinter frame but if that is not possible I could settle for a > separate window to display the clips. > > Thank you very much in advance for your help > > Thanassi > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share > your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Pymedia-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pymedia-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Pymedia-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pymedia-users
