Use this instead -> https://github.com/ree1261/pyvidplayer2

An extremely easy to use module that plays videos on Pygame.

BaralTech has a good tutorial ---> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu8SLkvFq8I&ab_channel=BaralTech

There was an egregious bug that prevented active from turning false on some videos, which I barely fixed. Playing videos in Python is just very janky but hopefully this script can serve you well.

Changes:

• fixed (hopefully) the active bug
• changed some variables to internal use
• added back the close function
• added typing hints
• added seperate pause and resume functions
• significantly reduced console output (although unfortunately there's still some)

notice: Try to save the issues tab for genuine bugs with the script. If you just have a question, you can email me at [email protected]

import pygame
from pyvidplayer import Video

pygame.init()
win = pygame.display.set_mode((1280, 720))
clock = pygame.time.Clock()

#provide video class with the path to your video
vid = Video("vid.mp4")

while True:
    key = None
    for event in pygame.event.get():
        if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
            vid.close()
            pygame.quit()
            exit()
        elif event.type == pygame.KEYDOWN:
            key = pygame.key.name(event.key)
    
    #your program frame rate does not affect video playback
    clock.tick(60)
    
    if key == "r":
        vid.restart()           #rewind video to beginning
    elif key == "p":
        vid.toggle_pause()      #pause/plays video
    elif key == "right":
        vid.seek(15)            #skip 15 seconds in video
    elif key == "left":
        vid.seek(-15)           #rewind 15 seconds in video
    elif key == "up":
        vid.set_volume(1.0)     #max volume
    elif key == "down":
        vid.set_volume(0.0)     #min volume
        
    #draws the video to the given surface, at the given position
    vid.draw(win, (0, 0), force_draw=False)
    
    pygame.display.update()

The video class now has a bunch of new properties

• path
• name
• frame_count
• frame_rate
• duration
• original_size
• current_size
• active - becomes false when the video finishes playing
• frame_surf - current video frame as a pygame surface
• alt_resize - fallback resizing function in case the usual one fails. by default this is pygame.transform.smoothscale, which is a bit cpu intensive, so you can switch it to pygame.transform.scale if you don't mind the video looking uglier

• restart()
• set_size(size) - resizes the video with ffpyplayer's resize function. This is a lot lighter on the cpu than the fallback function, but it sometimes doesn't work
• set_volume(volume) - from 0.0 to 1.0
• get_volume()
• toggle_pause()
• get_paused()
• pause()
• resume()
• close() - releases video resources
• get_pos() - returns the current time in the video in seconds
• seek(time) - moves forwards or backwards by time in seconds in the video. Note that when seeking backwards, the video will temporaily freeze. This seems to be an issue with ffpyplayer, and I can't fix it (trust me I tried)
• draw(surf, pos, force_draw=True) - draws the current video frame onto the given surface at the given position. If force_draw is enabled, a surface will be drawn every time draw is called. If it's disabled, a surface will only be drawn when a new frame from the video is made which saves cpu