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Re: [pygame] Movie module information

So this means there is live playback already?

Lenard


Nirav Patel wrote:

The way the camera module is currently written, it would involve a lot
to go straight from camera to movie.  The raw MMAPed camera data is
copied directly into a Pygame Surface.  I think the use case of
camera->movie may be better left to gstreamer and it's python
bindings.

Nirav

On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Tyler Laing <trinioler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Could be possible, but it depends on the library involved in the camera
module. I'll definitely keep that in mind as well.

-Tyler

On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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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