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Re: [pygame] No video playback on Windows XP



On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 02:01:20PM -0700, Andy Buecker wrote:
> I can't seem to get video playback on Windows XP.  I can hear the
> audio and I'm echoing the frame number fine, but I don't see any
> video.  Playback of the same code works fine on Linux.
> 
> I've tried using the 1.6 python 2.4 binary package and a version
> compiled from the 1.6 source as well.  No luck.  The 1.7 binary for
> windows doesn't seem to have the movie module with it.
> 
> Any hints would be greatly appreciated.

IIRC, pygame.movie is broken for many (most?) people, and needs to be 
removed/rewritten/replaced in a future release.

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Bob the Hamster