Why won't a .mpg video load into pygame's movie module

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I've been trying to get a short video to load and play within a pygame window. However, the program stalls when it tries to load the video. I'm also unable to abort the debugger.

import pygame
import pygame.movie

pygame.init()

print('TEST')

video = pygame.movie.Movie('D:\\Presentation\\video.mpg')

print('TEST')

This outputs 'TEST' once, so the video has not loaded (It keeps running "pygame.movie.Movie('D:\Presentation\video.mpg')" indefinitely).

I let it run for an hour but no luck, it keeps loading without any kind of exception or visible progress and the video is 1,636 KB large, 4 seconds long and was converted from a .mp4 using ffmpeg.

The directory is certainly correct for I tested with images in the same directive. I also restarted my PC (Windows 8.1 64-bit Python 3.2.5.1).

EDIT: I need an answer that will be relevant to the pygame module

File support is very limited so use FFmpeg as seen [here](http://www.pygame.org/docs/ref/movie.html). — Malik Brahimi, Jun 06 '15 at 21:34

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 06 '15 at 22:38

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I suggest you use Pyglet and follow the code I create here that plays a video.

answered Jun 06 '15 at 22:38

Malik Brahimi

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Sorry, but this is not helpful, I need to be able to do this all within the pygame module. – Frogboxe Jul 05 '15 at 21:40
@Frogboxe Can you share a link to download your video and I'll create a program? – Malik Brahimi Jul 05 '15 at 23:09

Why won't a .mpg video load into pygame's movie module

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