How can I play a mp4 movie using Moviepy and Pygame

user2648117 picture user2648117 · Jan 20, 2017 · Viewed 15.1k times · Source

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!

Answer

furas picture furas · Jan 20, 2017

First: you can use

import moviepy

print(moviepy.__file__)

to find source code and see how it works.


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()