How can I play a mp4 movie using Moviepy and Pygame [duplicate]

Question

How do you play an mp4 video in Pygame?

I have tried pygame.movie but this does not work...

Theres also moviepy, but I am having trouble changing the title of the window that pops up. It says "MoviePy", not sure how to change that.

import moviepy
from moviepy.editor import *
import os


os.environ["SDL_VIDEO_CENTERED"] = "1"

clip = VideoFileClip('qq.mp4')


clip.preview()

execfile("qq.py") # Execute my game right after the clip shows

How would I change the title from "MoviePy" to my "my game name"

Any help would be appreciated!

Balanchine

Answer 1

First: you can use

import moviepy

print(moviepy.__file__)

to find source code and see how it works.

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After searching in source code you will see that it uses pygame to display it and you can try to use pygame function set_caption() to change title.

from moviepy.editor import *
import pygame

pygame.display.set_caption('Hello World!')

clip = VideoFileClip('video.mp4')
clip.preview()

pygame.quit()

Cislunar

This example doesn't work for me: IndexError: bytes to write exceed buffer size – Trite

@Trite better create question - you will have more place to put FULL error message and code. It seems it has nothing to do with main problem in this question - which was adding caption to window. – Cislunar

Answer 2

Have you tried converting from mp4 to the .mpg file format (MPEG-1 video, MPEG-1 Audio Layer III (MP3) sound) using ffmpeg video conversion program (http://ffmpeg.org/):

ffmpeg -i <infile> -vcodec mpeg1video -acodec libmp3lame -intra <outfile.mpg>

(Pygame can playback video and audio from basic encoded MPEG-1 video files)

Tercel

Thanks for the fast response! I did what you said but I get this error message when using Pygame movie: raise NotImplementedError(MissingPygameModule) NotImplementedError: movie module not available (ImportError: No module named movie) – Balanchine

@Balanchine Are you using pygame or not? In your example you don't. If you are: pygame.movie don't work. It's outdated. – Barbican

I don't mind how I show the opening video. It can be pygame or anything else. Because I could not find anything in pygame, I decided to use moviepy just to show it and then after it finishes, I use execfile("qq.py") to go straight to my game. My problem with moviepy is that I don't know how to change the title bar. It shows "MoviePy"... – Balanchine

Answer 3

from moviepy.editor import *

import pygame

pygame.init()

pygame.display.set_caption('Show Video on screen')

video = VideoFileClip('name_of_your video.mp4')
video.preview()

pygame.quit()

Rebellion

Answer 4

I use this code and it work,you need moviepy and pydub libraries to let it work.

id_path='我不是购物狂 EP15 Rebirth Of Shopping Addicts EP15_HIGH.mp4' # Name of the video
au_path='Produce.wav'
import moviepy.editor as mp
video = mp.VideoFileClip(vid_path)
from pydub import AudioSegment
from pydub.playback import play
video.preview()
song = AudioSegment.from_wav(au_path)
play(song)

Forint