Re: [pygame] PyMedia

[David Konsumer <konsumer@toughtechs.com>]

Thanks, that's very helpful.  I'll try it out.

On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 14:37, Pete Shinners wrote:
> David Konsumer wrote:
> > I am trying to use pymedia ( http://pymedia.sourceforge.net/ ) to play a
> > compressed (divx AVI) video file.  I can get it to display video, but I
> > have a feeling I'm doing something wrong, because it's really slow.  Has
> > anyone had any success playing compressed video in pygame?
> 
> David, you may have luck with the new experimental movie decoder in the 
> current pygame prerelease. It works well on linux, but will require 
> libavcodec on windows to work properly. The decoder works well, but 
> won't soon be supporting some of the regular pygame Movie features, like 
> seeking. When you get it running it will be in the 'movieext' pygame module.