VLC Python binding don't work on MAC OS X 10.6

[acidjunk]

I did read a couple forum posts, and it seems that a lot of people have problems to get the example vlc.py or generated_vlc.py from git repo to work on a MAC with 64 bit python.

I followed the instructions here:
http://wiki.videolan.org/Talk:Python_bindings
(I used $ export VERSIONER_PYTHON_PREFER_32_BIT=yes )

vlc.py from here:
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc/bindings ... e9;hb=HEAD

I downloaded vlc1.1.11 (32 bits version) and used the python already on my mac : 2.6.1 64 bit/32 bit

Indeed when I set my env correct 32 bits python gets loaded and vlc.py start without complaining about dylib's. I don't get errors and can play a .mp3 file. When I try to play video I can hear the sound but no new video window appears -> so no video.

We would like to use the python bindings in a PyQt project, but if it's not working on Mac OSX i'll have to look form something else.

I see a lot of other forum questions about it an no real answer anywhere. Is the failures in the mac usx python bindings related to the fact that there is currently no mac osx VLC maintainer?

[acidjunk]

with VLC 1.1.12 the python binding work again on Mac OSX 10.6 and above with the stock python.

Because we want to use the VLC player in our python qt project we need
to integrate the players output in a QTwidget.
The example_qtvlc.py example from the videolan git repo fails when
starting video playback

--
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "example_qtvlc.py", line 156, in OpenFile
self.MediaPlayer.set_agl(self.VideoFrame.windId())
AttributeError: 'QFrame' object has no attribute 'windId'
--

So I did some searching and found Movie Content Editor:
http://code.google.com/p/movie-content-editor/

They implemented some pyobjc code to initialise a NSView where the
player can render its output.
I had to do some changes in this example from 2010; but i have working
video player inside a QtWidget on Mac OS X.

The working example includes a video for easy testing:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13529909/QTmac/pyqtvlc.zip
A README file is included, with a log of what I had to change to get it working.

I don't know how to implement resizing of the video window and/or
fullscreen support.
Is it possible to change the example_qtvlc.py in the videolan git repo
with some working code for Mac OSX again, based on my working example?

[OlivierAubert]

> A README file is included, with a log of what I had to change to get it working.
Apart from adding a sys.path item, I did not see any changes.

> Is it possible to change the example_qtvlc.py in the videolan git repo
> with some working code for Mac OSX again, based on my working example?
It would be really great to have working code in the qtvlc.py example. However, I lack time and hardware to extract the appropriate code from your example and put it in qtvlc.py. Could you please integrate (and test) your changes in the qtvlc.py file?