Trouble Inserting VLC Instance into PyQt Frame

[thebeav]

I'm trying to make a simple video player app by embedding a VLC instance inside a PyQt widget (a QFrame). I found a few examples that go me going, but my code doesn't quite work. When I launch it, it plays "test_video.mp4", but it launches the regular VLC player app in its own, separate window. When I close out of the VLC player window, obviously the video stops, but the audio continues playing until I close my own Qt (PyQt) window. I'm using python-vlc, downloaded via pip.

Full disclosure, I originally posted this problem on stackoverflow, but got no response (yet).
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3991 ... o-a-qframe

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### video_player.py import sys import vlc from PyQt4 import QtCore, QtGui from video_player_main_window import Ui_MainWindow class StartQT4(QtGui.QMainWindow): def __init__(self, parent=None): QtGui.QWidget.__init__(self, parent) self.ui = Ui_MainWindow() self.ui.setupUi(self) self.vlc_instance = vlc.Instance("--no-xlib --sout-all") self.mediaplayer = self.vlc_instance.media_player_new() self.mediaplayer.set_xwindow(self.ui.video_frame.winId()) print(self.ui.video_frame.winId()) self.media_path = "test_video.mp4" self.media = self.vlc_instance.media_new(self.media_path) self.mediaplayer = self.vlc_instance.media_player_new() self.mediaplayer.set_media(self.media) self.mediaplayer.play() if __name__ == "__main__": app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv) myapp = StartQT4() myapp.show() sys.exit(app.exec_())

I added a "print(self.ui.video_frame.win())" just for debugging / sanity check to make sure that was a legitimate value. Command line output below. The "X server failure" shows up after I close the VLC window while my PyQt window is still running.

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### command line output 106954771 [00007f9c48055168] vdpau_avcodec generic error: Xlib is required for VDPAU [00007f9c3c003968] xcb_window window error: X server failure

The "video_player_main_window" is the module that QtDesigner (+ pyuic4) generates. "video_frame" is the name of the QFrame object I'm trying to put the VLC instance into. See full code for video_player_main_window.py here: http://pastebin.com/cHpAHZN2

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Why not using pyvlc ?