I don't know much about the current movie module, however, I am the developer responsible for writing the new movie module, which will be able to do exactly what you're asking for. But it will be a little while before its quite ready, unfortunately. About two months to be precise. Sorry you'll have to wait a bit... :/
-Tyler On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 7:02 PM, Matthew Gibson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to write a small program that uses opengl in python, and which > has a video textures. I think I am making progress in the video texture side > of things, but am having trouble playing mpeg videos in python. So far I've > just tried pygame. > > The issue is that video playback doesn't seem to work for me until the > command pygame.display.set_mode(size) is given. The problem is that I don't > want pygame to initiate a window, etc. I just want it to fetch images, draw > things, play mpeg movies, and then I take the pixel data from pygame > surfaces and map it onto opengl textures. > > I was wondering if anyone knows either how to get videos to draw to > surfaces without calling pygame.display.set_mode, or if anyone knows of a > different, better way of playing mpeg movies in python? > > Thanks, > > Matthew > > ------------------------------ > Create a cool, new character for your Windows Live™ Messenger. Check it > out <http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9656621> > -- Visit my blog at http://oddco.ca/zeroth/zblog
