Re: [pygame] Array2d fails with movie_renderframe

[Brian Fisher <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

normally people just blit one surface to another with the "blit" method of the dest surface:
http://www.pygame.org/docs/ref/surface.html#Surface.blit

so instead of this:
    frame = pygame.surfarray.array2d(screen2) #copies
    pygame.surfarray.blit_array(screen, frame)

you could do this:
    screen.blit(screen2, (0,0))

...but if you are getting the "frame" array anyways for another purpose, then the blit_array call is a perfectly fine way to go - it shouldn't perform any different in your case (i.e. not using hardware display suraces), and it means you are actually rendering what you are working with, which can be a good thing.

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Vero E. Arriola <blackzafiro.net@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey! I got a way to make it work.  Is this the way surfaces are supposed to be used??? Thanks ;)

import pygame, sys
from pygame.locals import *

filepath = "esponja.mpg"
pygame.init()
pygame.mixer.quit()
pygame.surfarray.use_arraytype("numpy")
   
movie = pygame.movie.Movie(filepath)

size = w, h = movie.get_size()

screen = pygame.display.set_mode(size)
screen2 = pygame.Surface(size)
movie.set_display(screen2, Rect((0, 0), size))

def play():
  i = 0
  frame_number = 0
  while(1):
    frame_number = movie.render_frame(i)
    frame = pygame.surfarray.array2d(screen2) #copies
    print frame

    pygame.surfarray.blit_array(screen, frame)
    pygame.display.flip()

    if frame_number < i:
      break
    i = i + 1
  movie.rewind()