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Re: [pygame] Movie module information

Yes, that is it. The old movie module had a loop option on its play method. It was for infinite looping. Unfortunately the smpeg documentation was misinterpreted to mean that a positive value meant to loop that many times. It didn't. So the loop option was totally removed from pygame.movie.
Another idea from reading a posting on the camera module, maybe the two modules can cooperate, in that camera input could be plugged directly into movie output, bypassing any execution of Python code. 

Lenard


Tyler Laing wrote:

Thats awesome, thank you Lenard.
By loop, you mean you load up a movie file, and it loops however many times you want, or pass in -1 for infinite times, interruptable at any point? 

-Tyler
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:len-l@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote: 

    Tyler Laing wrote:

        Hello all,

        One of the first steps I need to take for the GSoC project is
        to get user stories so I can build acceptance tests.

        I want to hear what you guys(the users) want out of an updated
        movie module. What do you want to be able to do, and how?

        I'm also interested in hearing what people liked and didn't
        like about the current movie module.

        -Tyler
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    Hi Tyler,

    Well, there is this game framework, Pyzzle, just sitting on
    SourceForge, http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyzzle/ . It is for
    developing Riven like adventure games. It was working until a fix
    to the movie module broke it. It would be nice to see that project
    resurrected with a new movie module. So I guess this is a request
    for a working loop option for movie playback.

    Lenard

    P.S.

    I am working on getting the ffmpeg libraries ready for Windows. I
    have built them using the proper C runtime for Python 2.5
    (cross-compiled from linux). Once I can collect together the
    necessary headers and import libraries I will bundle them up and
    make them available. But they will have limited capability for
    now. I have only succeeded with an mpg to avi conversion so far.
    After this I will try customizing msys_build_deps.py for ffmpeg.

    L.L.




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