Re: [pygame] pygame.movie installation

[Pete Shinners <shredwheat@attbi.com>]

Prahlad Vaidyanathan wrote:
> I've been trying to get the pygame.movie module working. I've installed
> smpeg 0.4.1. The header files are in /usr/local/include/smpeg.
>
 > ...
>
> Why is it not installed properly ? The rest of pygame is working
> alright, but only this is having trouble.

hmm, these are all the steps i would have recommended up to this point.
try just doing "import pygame.movie". that will actually raise the 
proper exceptions if it doesn't import correctly. the import error 
should provide a pretty good clue as to what is going on.

run the command "smpeg-config --cflags --libs". take a look and see if 
there are any important flags missing.

oh, in the Setup file, perhaps the line for the movie module is still 
commented out? scroll down to the second section which lists the 
optional pygame modules. make sure the move module is not commented.

if all that is in the "Setup" file, then running "python setup.py 
install" should either break during the compile or run successfully. if 
it breaks during the compile, then the flags for SMPEG need to be changed.

hopefully this will get you running.


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