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This is super old, but turns out I just found a solution today.

This behaviour can be solved by setting Qt::AA_DontCreateNativeWidgetSiblings.
right after creating the QApplication:

Ah, you have to cast the winID to int:

the line: should be: your code works fine then on my machine.

I happen to have embedded libVLC into a cross-platform PyQt Application, although PyQt5, could you show how you embed vlc player into pyqt?

Hey Jean-Baptiste, I'm essentially using an adaption of the PyQT4 tutorial I found somewhere. I have written a minimal example to reproduce this problem in python: I'm using python3 and anacondas pyqt 5.6.0. https://github.com/ghalter/CodeSnippets/tree/master/QTVLC/demo.py While I have not tested it...

Hey everybody, First of all: Thank you so much for libVLC, it is truly awesome! I'm currently developing a movie-annotation application using libVLC and Qt. While everything works as expected on Windows and Ubuntu, I have the strange issue, that QDockWidgets get broken by the VLC-Instance on OSX. I'...