Playing non-MPG movies with Pygame

kosh at aesaeion.com kosh at aesaeion.com
Mon Oct 15 23:50:48 EDT 2001


On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Rainer Deyke wrote:

> Attempting to decode the video one pixel at a time in Python will not yield
> acceptable performance.
This is like say there is some water in the ocean, olympus mons is a
lump on the ground or that a 1 gigaton nuclear warhead explodes. All are
technically correct but are way understated. Attempting to decode a video
like that in python would probably end up taking the next 10K years to
decode 30 mins of video. ;)

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