Re: [pygame] scissors paper rock crash

["Jason M. Marshall" <jmm0@xxxxxxxxx>]

Lenard,

I just tried the movie module again with Pygame
1.8.1pre-svn1236, Python 2.4.4, and Windows XP. You're
right; the movie module does work!

Jason

--- Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> That part of the documentation is outdated. The
> movie module works fine 
> on Windows and is included in Pygame 1.8.0. Here is
> a simple movie player:
> 
> import pygame
> from pygame.locals import *
> 
> def main(filepath):
>     pygame.init()
>     pygame.mixer.quit()
>    
>     movie = pygame.movie.Movie(filepath)
>     screen =
> pygame.display.set_mode(movie.get_size())
>     movie.set_display(screen)
> 
>     pygame.event.set_allowed((QUIT, KEYDOWN))
>     movie.play()
>     while movie.get_busy():
>         evt = pygame.event.wait()
>         if evt.type == QUIT:
>             break
>         if evt.type == KEYDOWN and evt.unicode ==
> u'q':
>             break
>     if movie.get_busy():
>         movie.stop()
> 
> if __name__ == '__main__':
>     import sys
>     main(sys.argv[1])
> 
> 
> It still works when an extra set_mode() call is
> added before "movie = ...".
> 
> Lenard
> 
> 
> Jason M. Marshall wrote:
> > Nick,
> >
> > That error message tells me that you're using
> Windows,
> > not Linux. With the recent versions of Pygame for
> > Windows, even if your code is correct, the movie
> will
> > not be played. (See
> > http://www.pygame.org/docs/ref/movie.html for more
> > info.)
> >
> > A brute force solution would be to save each of
> your
> > movies' frames as a common image file. Then, to
> > animate, blit each frame to the screen at the
> right
> > time. 
> >
> > Jason
> >
> > --- Nick.Treloar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> Hey i used this code as suggested for my scissors
> >> paper rock movie
> >>
> >> def movieu(self):
> >>         mov_name = "video.mpg"
> >>         pygame.mixer.quit()
> >>         screen = pygame.display.set_mode((320,
> 240))
> >>         video = pygame.movie.Movie(mov_name)
> >>         screen =
> >> pygame.display.set_mode(video.get_size())
> >>         video.play()
> >>         while video.get_busy():
> >>             for event in pygame.event.get():
> >>                 if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
> >>                     break
> >>         pygame.quit() #uninitializes pygame
> modules.
> >>         sys.exit() #you should usually call this
> >> after pygame.quit() so the program quits.
> Otherwise
> >> errors can occur :O
> >> python.exe has encountered a problem and needs to
> >> close.  We are sorry for the inconvenience
> >> is this the code or python or th computer
> >>     
> 
>