Re: [pygame] problem - playing a movie in pygame

[Casey Duncan <casey@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 3, 2008, at 12:02 PM, Pedro Vieira wrote:

> Hi.
>
> I'm wanting to play a movie when I start my game, but I'm having a  
> problem at playing a video in pygame. I already used pygame.movie  
> and pymedia to do that, but they didn't work.
>
> The pygame.movie only supports MPEG1 encode, and the video is being  
> displayed with low quality.
>
> Using pymedia the problem is when I use the player.py module. The  
> video and audio aren't in sync. I tried to limit the FPS for that  
> the images don't be displayed too quickly, but I didn't find how to  
> do this in pymedia.
>
> Anybody knows how to solve this problem? Is there any another libary  
> to play a movie in python?

pyglet is a possible alternative if you can't get pygame to do what  
you want.

-Casey