Re: [pygame] Playing OGGs in pygame

[Rene Dudfield <renesd@xxxxxxxxx>]

try importing pygame.mixer by itself, and see what the error is.

import pygame.mixer



On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 13:04:50 -0800, Keith Nemitz <keithn@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I should have said two other things:
> 
> 1. This is happening on a Macintosh (mac osx 10.3.8, pygame 1.7, sdl
> 1.2.8, latest ogg frameworks)
> 
> 2. The code generates no errors when loading or playing the ogg file.
> 
> 
> On Mar 16, 2005, at 1:00 PM, Keith Nemitz wrote:
> 
> > Okay, this is probably just a side-effect of switching pythons and
> > upgrading frameworks, but I've got one thing that's killing me. I hope
> > someone can look at this and say 'hey, dude you just need this file or
> > do this...'
> >
> > Basically, I'm trying to play an ogg file as a sound effect. It was
> > all working a few weeks ago, in fact I shipped an entire python/pygame
> > game that used oggs for it's music and SFX. But now it's not working.
> > Here's a minimal example:
> >
> >
> >
> > class dummysound:
> >     def play(self): pass
> >
> > def load_sound(file):
> >     if not pygame.mixer: return dummysound()
> >     #file = os.path.join('data', file)
> >     try:
> >         sound = pygame.mixer.Sound(file)
> >         return sound
> >     except pygame.error:
> >         print 'Warning, unable to load,', file
> >     return dummysound()
> >
> >
> > def main():
> >     global boom_sound
> >
> >     pygame.init()
> >     screen = pygame.display.set_mode((640, 480))
> >
> >     if pygame.mixer and not pygame.mixer.get_init():
> >         print 'Warning, no sound'
> >         pygame.mixer = None
> >
> >
> >     boom_sound = load_sound('flame.ogg')
> >     #boom_sound = load_sound('car_door.wav')
> >     if pygame.mixer:
> >         pygame.mixer.music.load('lonTheme.ogg')
> >         pygame.mixer.music.play(-1)
> >                        .
> >                        .
> >                        .
> >                        .
> >         boom_sound.play()
> >
> > -----------------------------------------
> >
> > The music 'lonTheme.ogg ' streams and plays just fine, but the
> > 'flame.ogg' doesn't make a peep. However, if I use 'car_door.wav',
> > that works when played.
> >
> > Any thoughts? I could email the full example program to anyone willing
> > to check it further. (about 300k)
> >
> >
> >
> > Keith Nemitz
> > Mousechief Co.
> > www.mousechief.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
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