Re: [pygame] movie flip/update

[Pete Shinners <pete@shinners.org>]

mike@zcentric.com wrote:
> I'm not so sure what you mean by creating an offscreen surface, but I
> don't think I can do what I wanted. I wanted to run mplayer in my pygame
> window as a window in the main window. Kind of like a video preview, then
> you click on the video and it'll go full screen. There isn't much info on
> the list for movies let alone mplayer.
you can have mplayer run in an embedded window. this would make fill 
the entire pygame window. the tricky part atm will be getting the 
window id to use.

sdl has no direct way of getting the window id. there is a workaround 
of a platform specific event message, but i haven't really looked at 
it, and pygame doesn't do anything with it yet. perhaps it warrants a 
second look.