How to play video in PyGame?

Question

Python

Can't play video in pygame, pygame movie module is missing, video freezes via moviepy. Is there any way to play videos in pygame?

Answer 1

There is also pyglet

import pygame, pyglet, ctypes

#setup pyglet & the video
path = r"C:\SomeVideo.avi"

player = pyglet.media.Player()
source = pyglet.media.load(path)
player.queue(source)
player.play()

#setup pygame
pygame.init()
pygame.display.set_mode((800,800), 0)
pygame.display.set_caption("Video in Pygame!")
screen = pygame.display.get_surface()
pygame.display.flip()

#blit the video in a standard pygame event loop
while True:
    events = pygame.event.get()
    for event in events:
        if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
            sys.exit(0)
    screen.fill(0)
    
    player.dispatch_events()
    tex = player.get_texture()
    raw = tex.get_image_data().get_data('RGBA',tex.width*4)
    raw = ctypes.string_at(ctypes.addressof(raw), ctypes.sizeof(raw))
    img = pygame.image.frombuffer(raw, (tex.width, tex.height), 'RGBA')
    screen.blit(img, (0,0))
    
    pygame.display.flip()

The method is crutch, but you can try