Okay, superpollo. I'm looking at a few possible ways to do this (the Zen of Python hates me, even though I'm dutch-blooded!), and I'd like to ask a couple more questions before I dive into writing up a solution.
First, are you simply trying to capture the framebuffer of a Pygame-made game in realtime, or are you using Pygame to explicitly render and build a movie or GIF animation sequence? I need to know what kind of overhead is permissible, and in the former case I know there won't be a lot of allowance due to how slow Pygame's drawing operations can get when they stack up, especially at high resolutions. Secondly, how much are you willing to install to have a means to do this? Because from the looks of things, this'll have to either be tackled with: * ImageMagick (http://www.imagemagick.org/) as Ian suggested - the ctypes binding I found for this was too immature to use, and the other option will require compiling, * A branch someone on EsperNet pointed me to called GraphicsMagick (http://www.graphicsmagick.org/) - haven't looked into this much so I can't comment on it yet, * or a module I found on Google Code that greatly extends from PIL's meager GIF-handling abilities, images2gif (http://code.google.com/p/visvis/source/browse/vvmovie/images2gif.py). Let me know what you think of the options, and I'm sorry this has gotten a little too complex. I was hoping animated GIF sequencing in Python would be a simple matter too! ~Temia -- When on earth, do as the earthlings do. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
