Re: What does pygame.Movie mean by `an MPEG file'?

2005-09-29 Thread Kilian A. Foth
Christophe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kilian A. Foth a écrit : > > I just found this amazing video puzzle game written with the pygame > > library, which promises to be infinite fun - but I can't get it to > > decode any video file I own, except the game's own example .mpg. All I > > have is lots

Re: What does pygame.Movie mean by `an MPEG file'?

2005-09-28 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2005-09-28, Roel Schroeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Grant Edwards schreef: >> There are two issues when it comes to video files: >> >> 1) The "container" format. That defines the mechanism used to >> combine the video and audio data streams into a single byte >> stream (e.g. a fil

Re: What does pygame.Movie mean by `an MPEG file'?

2005-09-28 Thread Roel Schroeven
Grant Edwards schreef: > There are two issues when it comes to video files: > > 1) The "container" format. That defines the mechanism used to > combine the video and audio data streams into a single byte > stream (e.g. a file). This is what is usually denoted by > file file suffix.

Re: What does pygame.Movie mean by `an MPEG file'?

2005-09-28 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2005-09-28, Kilian A. Foth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just found this amazing video puzzle game written with the pygame > library, which promises to be infinite fun - but I can't get it to > decode any video file I own, except the game's own example .mpg. All I > have is lots and lots of us

Re: What does pygame.Movie mean by `an MPEG file'?

2005-09-28 Thread Thomas Jollans
Christophe wrote: > Kilian A. Foth a écrit : > >> I just found this amazing video puzzle game written with the pygame >> library, which promises to be infinite fun - but I can't get it to >> decode any video file I own, except the game's own example .mpg. All I >> have is lots and lots of useless

Re: What does pygame.Movie mean by `an MPEG file'?

2005-09-28 Thread Christophe
Kilian A. Foth a écrit : > I just found this amazing video puzzle game written with the pygame > library, which promises to be infinite fun - but I can't get it to > decode any video file I own, except the game's own example .mpg. All I > have is lots and lots of useless .avi, .mp2, .wmv, and so on

Re: What does pygame.Movie mean by `an MPEG file'?

2005-09-28 Thread accolades
An MPEG is a type of video file, you are correct in that assumption. Things such as DivX and Xvid are called codec's (COmpressor/DECompressor) codec's are used to conserve disk space, raw video files are very large. It is quite likely that PyGame does not support the compression being used by your

What does pygame.Movie mean by `an MPEG file'?

2005-09-28 Thread Kilian A. Foth
I just found this amazing video puzzle game written with the pygame library, which promises to be infinite fun - but I can't get it to decode any video file I own, except the game's own example .mpg. All I have is lots and lots of useless .avi, .mp2, .wmv, and so on... Now, the pygame.Movie docume