Re: [pygame] problems with using video

[Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx>]

Joseph Rawson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am new to using pygame, and I have just started making my first application 
> with it.  I have been tasked to create a slideshow type of application for a 
> client.  Basically, it just displays a picture in the background with a text 
> message scrolling along the bottom of the screen for each scene in the 
> slideshow.  I have been trying to incorporate videos into this application, 
> but I've been having problems with this.
>
> I've been able to get the videos to play, and I've made it so that they appear 
> framed in the center of the screen so the scrolling text doesn't look messed 
> up when scrolling by on the bottom (In the future, I'm probably going to fix 
> it so the whole background will play the video, and the text will be drawn 
> with the current frame as a background, but that's too involved for me at the 
> moment).  I've made it so that the video will loop for the duration of the 
> scene, which is timed according to the text on the bottom of the screen 
> scrolling completely past.
>
> The problem is that most of the time (almost 100%) the video (and whole scene) 
> will freeze up, and pygame will become unresponsive.  Occasionally, the whole 
> thing will crash leaving this error message:
>
> python: ../../src/xcb_lock.c:77: _XGetXCBBuffer: Assertion `((int) 
> ((xcb_req) - (dpy->request)) >= 0)' failed.
>
>   
Here, have a look at this discussion:

http://nwn.bioware.com/forums/viewtopic.html?topic=592893&forum=72

It looks like the same problem, an X-windows/KDE conflict. SDL is also 
mentioned. What version on SDL do you have?

Lenard


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