Re: [pygame] Pygame and dualhead displays?

[Richard Jones <richardjones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 02 November 2006 07:35, Karlo Lozovina wrote:
> On 11/1/06, Ryan Charpentier <ryancharpen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > This is entirely doable if you use two or more processes, each running a
> > pygame screen. Then just pass messages between them using sockets.
>
> Hm, simple and elegant solution, I like it! I'm just affraid it might
> be slow on older computers, but guess I'll have to test that to see if
> it works.
>
> One more thing that I forgot to mention: Pygame (and SDL) support only
> MPEG encoded video streams (at least that's what the docs say), but
> how about DivX/XviD playing? Is there a way to play those formats
> using Pygame? And if not, what are my other options?

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