Greetings Monks,

I've spent the last couple hours doing extensive perlmonks/CPAN/Yahoo searches for any module or widget that will allow me to play video in perl, preferably perltk. The closest I got was tkMovie, but that's only for tcl. I see that someone asked the same question back in 2002, but there was never a distinct answer. My preferred format is mpg4 or divx, but mpg2 would work in a pinch. My target OS is Windows.

I'm trying to write my own Laserdisc-style game, hopefully using perltk and video clips. This task shouldn't be too bad if I could just find a perl video player that would allow me to switch between streams quickly, or to seek quickly inside one large stream. Imagine laserdisc-style games of Star Wars, InuYasha, Dukes of Hazard, etc...

Any advice, exalted ones?

Thanks,
TROGDOR

In reply to Playing video with perl / perltk by TROGDOR

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