VLC/Python bindings simple player example

[videolanuser731]

As I had to go through a lot of troubles to find a working example of simple Python/VLC integration, I thought I'd post a simple example to get anybody looking into that area started :

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#!/usr/bin/env python import gtk import sys import vlc class VideoPlayer: def __init__(self): self.mc=vlc.MediaControl( [ ] ) if sys.argv[1:]: self.mc.playlist_add_item(sys.argv[1]) self.libvlc=vlc.Object(0) self.widget=self.build_widget() def main(self): self.popup() gtk.main() def action(self, button, action): action(0) return True def print_pos(self, toto): streaminfo = self.mc.get_stream_information() if streaminfo["status"] == 0: print streaminfo["position"], " / ", streaminfo["length"] def build_widget(self): vbox=gtk.VBox() self.drawable=gtk.DrawingArea() self.drawable.set_size_request(320,200) vbox.add(self.drawable) hbox=gtk.HButtonBox() for name, action in ( ("Play", self.mc.start), ("Pos", self.print_pos), ("Pause", self.mc.pause), ("Stop", self.mc.stop), ("Quit", gtk.main_quit)): b=gtk.Button(name) b.connect("clicked", self.action, action) hbox.add(b) vbox.pack_start(hbox, expand=False) vbox.show_all() return vbox def popup(self): w=gtk.Window() w.add(self.widget) w.show_all() # Now that self.drawable is realized, its xid is available if sys.platform == 'win32': xidattr='handle' else: xidattr='xid' self.libvlc.set("drawable", getattr(self.drawable.window, xidattr)) w.connect("destroy", gtk.main_quit) return w if __name__ == '__main__': p=VideoPlayer() p.main()

[OlivierAubert]

Note that this code is a bit outdated, and will work only with vlc <= 0.8.6, for which compiling the bindings is a bit of a pain, esp. crossplatform. You are using features that have been removed from the development tree. Sample player code is provided in the bindings/python directory :
https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/browser/b ... cwidget.py

[I think you know that, since you obviously based your code on it, but it can be useful information for people looking for it].

[videolanuser731]

Yes, maybe I should have specified that this code was tested with version 0.8.6e on Ubuntu 6.06.2

I'm still struggling to get the SVN version running, I'll try to post an updated example.

[OlivierAubert]

Well, the situation being much saner with vlc 0.9.0, there should be no struggle to build the bindings, even without building the whole VLC:

On Debian/Ubuntu, it is simple, since the needed development files are packaged: you need to install the dev package libvlc1-dev.

Get the python bindings sources from the git tree. If the svn mirror functions correctly, you can get only the bindings with
svn co svn://svn.videolan.org/vlc/trunk/bindings/python

Then, in the python directory, launch
python setup.py build

The module will be built in
build/lib.linux-i686-2.5
and can be installed through
python setup.py install (as root).

And you are done. For the sample code, as I said before, it is present in the bindings directory and I gave the link to it. If you think there are some things to modify to make it clearer, please tell me so that I can update the file.

[videolanuser731]

Right, I looked at the nightlies but there are some incompatible dependencies with Ubuntu 6.06 so I had to got back to the stable branch for now. I will try to sort it out by maybe putting the required libraries in a chroot or something.
Also, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to imply your example in the repository was bad.

[nico_open]

hello,

I followed this post to be able to have the vlc python bindings but when I try to do the python setup.py build I get the following :

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*** Warning *** Cannot find vlc-config *** Warning *** Cannot find vlc-config *** Warning *** Cannot find vlc-config running install running build running build_ext building 'vlc' extension gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I../.. -I./../../include -I. -I/usr/win32/include -I/usr/include/python2.5 -c ./vlc_module.c -o build/temp.linux-i686-2.5/./vlc_module.o In file included from ./vlc_module.c:24: ./vlcglue.h:27:20: error: Python.h: No such file or directory ./vlcglue.h:28:26: error: structmember.h: No such file or directory ./vlcglue.h:30:19: error: stdio.h: No such file or directory In file included from ./../../include/vlc/vlc.h:38, from ./vlcglue.h:31, from ./vlc_module.c:24: ./../../include/vlc/libvlc.h:155: warning: function declaration isn’t a prototype ./../../include/vlc/libvlc.h:164: warning: function declaration isn’t a prototype ./../../include/vlc/libvlc.h:173: warning: function declaration isn’t a prototype In file included from ./vlcglue.h:33, from ./vlc_module.c:24: ./../../include/vlc/mediacontrol_structures.h:37:20: error: stdint.h: No such file or directory In file included from ./vlcglue.h:33, from ./vlc_module.c:24: ./../../include/vlc/mediacontrol_structures.h:89: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘uint32_t’ In file included from ./vlc_module.c:24: ./vlcglue.h:76: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlcglue.h:77: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlcglue.h:78: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlcglue.h:79: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlcglue.h:80: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlcglue.h:81: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlcglue.h:88: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘PyObject_HEAD’ ./vlcglue.h:99: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘PyObject_HEAD’ ./vlcglue.h:109: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘PyObject_HEAD’ ./vlcglue.h:120: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘PyObject_HEAD’ ./vlcglue.h:129: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘PyObject_HEAD’ ./vlcglue.h:134: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘PyTypeObject’ ./vlcglue.h:135: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘PyTypeObject’ ./vlcglue.h:136: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘PyTypeObject’ ./vlcglue.h:137: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘PyTypeObject’ ./vlcglue.h:138: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘PyTypeObject’ ./vlcglue.h:152: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘*’ token ./vlcglue.h:153: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘*’ token ./vlcglue.h:154: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_module.c:34: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘vlc_methods’ ./vlc_module.c:39: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_module.c:40: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_module.c:41: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_module.c:42: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_module.c:43: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_module.c: In function ‘initvlc’: ./vlc_module.c:48: error: ‘PyObject’ undeclared (first use in this function) ./vlc_module.c:48: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once ./vlc_module.c:48: error: for each function it appears in.) ./vlc_module.c:48: error: ‘p_module’ undeclared (first use in this function) ./vlc_module.c:50: error: ‘vlcMediaInstance_Type’ undeclared (first use in this function) ./vlc_module.c:50: error: ‘PyType_GenericNew’ undeclared (first use in this function) ./vlc_module.c:51: error: ‘PyType_GenericAlloc’ undeclared (first use in this function) ./vlc_module.c:52: error: ‘vlcMediaDescriptor_Type’ undeclared (first use in this function) ./vlc_module.c:55: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘Py_InitModule3’ ./vlc_module.c:55: error: ‘vlc_methods’ undeclared (first use in this function) ./vlc_module.c:61: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘PyType_Ready’ ./vlc_module.c:61: error: ‘PyPosition_Type’ undeclared (first use in this function) ./vlc_module.c:63: error: ‘MediaControl_Type’ undeclared (first use in this function) ./vlc_module.c:65: error: ‘vlcInstance_Type’ undeclared (first use in this function) ./vlc_module.c:73: error: ‘MediaControl_InternalException’ undeclared (first use in this function) ./vlc_module.c:74: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘PyErr_NewException’ ./vlc_module.c:74: error: ‘NULL’ undeclared (first use in this function) ./vlc_module.c:75: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘Py_INCREF’ ./vlc_module.c:76: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘PyModule_AddObject’ ./vlc_module.c:79: error: ‘MediaControl_PositionKeyNotSupported’ undeclared (first use in this function) ./vlc_module.c:85: error: ‘MediaControl_PositionOriginNotSupported’ undeclared (first use in this function) ./vlc_module.c:91: error: ‘MediaControl_InvalidPosition’ undeclared (first use in this function) ./vlc_module.c:97: error: ‘MediaControl_PlaylistException’ undeclared (first use in this function) ./vlc_module.c:104: error: ‘vlcInstance_Exception’ undeclared (first use in this function) ./vlc_module.c:113: error: expected expression before ‘)’ token ./vlc_module.c:117: error: expected expression before ‘)’ token ./vlc_module.c:121: error: expected expression before ‘)’ token ./vlc_module.c:124: error: expected expression before ‘)’ token ./vlc_module.c:127: error: expected expression before ‘)’ token ./vlc_module.c:130: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘PyModule_AddIntConstant’ ./vlc_module.c: At top level: ./vlc_module.c:163: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’ before ‘size_t’ ./vlc_module.c: In function ‘fast_memcpy’: ./vlc_module.c:165: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘memcpy’ ./vlc_module.c:165: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘memcpy’ ./vlc_module.c:165: error: ‘len’ undeclared (first use in this function) In file included from ./vlc_module.c:175: ./vlc_mediacontrol.c: At top level: ./vlc_mediacontrol.c:31: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_mediacontrol.c:109: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_mediacontrol.c:115: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_mediacontrol.c:130: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_mediacontrol.c:159: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_mediacontrol.c:187: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_mediacontrol.c:215: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_mediacontrol.c:243: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_mediacontrol.c:271: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_mediacontrol.c:299: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_mediacontrol.c:307: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_mediacontrol.c:326: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_mediacontrol.c:341: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_mediacontrol.c:371: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_mediacontrol.c:417: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_mediacontrol.c:445: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_mediacontrol.c:476: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_mediacontrol.c:495: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_mediacontrol.c:512: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_mediacontrol.c:531: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_mediacontrol.c:548: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_mediacontrol.c:567: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_mediacontrol.c:584: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_mediacontrol.c:603: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘MediaControl_methods’ ./vlc_mediacontrol.c:651: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘MediaControl_Type’ In file included from ./vlc_module.c:176: ./vlc_position.c:29: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_position.c:70: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_position.c:91: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_position.c:115: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_position.c: In function ‘position_c_to_py’: ./vlc_position.c:157: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘PyObject_New’ ./vlc_position.c:157: error: expected expression before ‘PyPosition’ ./vlc_position.c:157: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast ./vlc_position.c:158: error: ‘PyPosition’ has no member named ‘origin’ ./vlc_position.c:159: error: ‘PyPosition’ has no member named ‘key’ ./vlc_position.c:160: error: ‘PyPosition’ has no member named ‘value’ ./vlc_position.c: At top level: ./vlc_position.c:165: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘PyPosition_methods’ ./vlc_position.c:170: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘PyPosition_members’ ./vlc_position.c:178: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘PyPosition_Type’ In file included from ./vlc_module.c:177: ./vlc_instance.c:27: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_instance.c: In function ‘free_args’: ./vlc_instance.c:66: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘free’ ./vlc_instance.c: At top level: ./vlc_instance.c:74: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_instance.c:110: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_instance.c:116: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_instance.c:123: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_instance.c:142: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_instance.c:168: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_instance.c:179: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_instance.c:191: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_instance.c:203: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_instance.c:214: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_instance.c:225: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_instance.c:236: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_instance.c:249: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_instance.c:297: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_instance.c:314: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_instance.c:331: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_instance.c:348: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_instance.c:361: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_instance.c:379: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_instance.c:390: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_instance.c:402: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_instance.c:418: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_instance.c:430: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_instance.c:446: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_instance.c:458: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_instance.c:476: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_instance.c:512: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_instance.c:528: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_instance.c:545: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_instance.c:562: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_instance.c:579: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_instance.c:596: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_instance.c:613: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_instance.c:649: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_instance.c:665: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_instance.c:681: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_instance.c:697: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_instance.c:714: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_instance.c:732: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_instance.c:754: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘vlcInstance_methods’ ./vlc_instance.c:836: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘vlcInstance_Type’ In file included from ./vlc_module.c:178: ./vlc_input.c:29: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_input.c:40: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_input.c:51: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_input.c:67: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_input.c:78: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_input.c:94: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_input.c:105: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_input.c:116: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_input.c:132: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_input.c:143: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_input.c:154: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_input.c:165: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_input.c:177: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_input.c:193: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_input.c:205: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_input.c:217: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_input.c:234: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_input.c:246: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_input.c:262: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_input.c:274: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_input.c:286: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_input.c:298: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_input.c:313: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_input.c:330: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_input.c:346: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_input.c:363: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_input.c:379: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_input.c:390: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_input.c:401: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_input.c:413: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_input.c:425: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_input.c:437: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_input.c:454: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_input.c:477: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_input.c:502: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_input.c:513: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_input.c:530: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘vlcMediaInstance_methods’ ./vlc_input.c:612: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘vlcMediaInstance_Type’ In file included from ./vlc_module.c:179: ./vlc_mediadescriptor.c:30: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_mediadescriptor.c:36: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_mediadescriptor.c:52: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_mediadescriptor.c:68: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_mediadescriptor.c:81: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_mediadescriptor.c:98: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_mediadescriptor.c:115: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_mediadescriptor.c:131: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_mediadescriptor.c:142: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_mediadescriptor.c:159: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_mediadescriptor.c:170: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ./vlc_mediadescriptor.c:208: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘vlcMediaDescriptor_methods’ ./vlc_mediadescriptor.c:234: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘vlcMediaDescriptor_Type’ error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

For info I am running under Ubuntu 7.10 and I have VLC O.9.0-git Grishenko installed.
I got the git vlc-snapshot-20080412.tar.bz2 from which I am trying to run the python setup.py build.

Does anybody has an idea of what is going on?

Thanks in advance for your answers...

Nico

[OlivierAubert]

You need to install the python development packages, which bundle the necessary include files (and other files). On Debian and derivatives (including ubuntu), the package is named python-dev

[nico_open]

Thanks for your quick answer. I now have the python-dev pakage and its dependencies. Unfortunately, I still get errors doing the python setup.y build :

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*** Warning *** Cannot find vlc-config *** Warning *** Cannot find vlc-config *** Warning *** Cannot find vlc-config running build running build_ext building 'vlc' extension gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I../.. -I./../../include -I. -I/usr/win32/include -I/usr/include/python2.5 -c ./vlc_module.c -o build/temp.linux-i686-2.5/./vlc_module.o In file included from ./../../include/vlc/vlc.h:38, from ./vlcglue.h:31, from ./vlc_module.c:24: ./../../include/vlc/libvlc.h:155: warning: function declaration isn’t a prototype ./../../include/vlc/libvlc.h:164: warning: function declaration isn’t a prototype ./../../include/vlc/libvlc.h:173: warning: function declaration isn’t a prototype In file included from ./vlc_module.c:177: ./vlc_instance.c: In function ‘vlcInstance_new’: ./vlc_instance.c:100: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘libvlc_new’ from incompatible pointer type ./vlc_instance.c: In function ‘vlcInstance_playlist_loop’: ./vlc_instance.c:133: warning: ‘libvlc_playlist_loop’ is deprecated (declared at ./../../include/vlc/deprecated.h:52) ./vlc_instance.c: In function ‘vlcInstance_playlist_play’: ./vlc_instance.c:160: warning: ‘libvlc_playlist_play’ is deprecated (declared at ./../../include/vlc/deprecated.h:69) ./vlc_instance.c: In function ‘vlcInstance_playlist_pause’: ./vlc_instance.c:173: warning: ‘libvlc_playlist_pause’ is deprecated (declared at ./../../include/vlc/deprecated.h:80) ./vlc_instance.c: In function ‘vlcInstance_playlist_isplaying’: ./vlc_instance.c:186: warning: ‘libvlc_playlist_isplaying’ is deprecated (declared at ./../../include/vlc/deprecated.h:90) ./vlc_instance.c: In function ‘vlcInstance_playlist_items_count’: ./vlc_instance.c:198: warning: ‘libvlc_playlist_items_count’ is deprecated (declared at ./../../include/vlc/deprecated.h:100) ./vlc_instance.c: In function ‘vlcInstance_playlist_stop’: ./vlc_instance.c:208: warning: ‘libvlc_playlist_stop’ is deprecated (declared at ./../../include/vlc/deprecated.h:123) ./vlc_instance.c: In function ‘vlcInstance_playlist_next’: ./vlc_instance.c:219: warning: ‘libvlc_playlist_next’ is deprecated (declared at ./../../include/vlc/deprecated.h:133) ./vlc_instance.c: In function ‘vlcInstance_playlist_prev’: ./vlc_instance.c:230: warning: ‘libvlc_playlist_prev’ is deprecated (declared at ./../../include/vlc/deprecated.h:143) ./vlc_instance.c: In function ‘vlcInstance_playlist_clear’: ./vlc_instance.c:241: warning: ‘libvlc_playlist_clear’ is deprecated (declared at ./../../include/vlc/deprecated.h:152) ./vlc_instance.c: In function ‘vlcInstance_playlist_add’: ./vlc_instance.c:277: warning: ‘libvlc_playlist_add_extended’ is deprecated (declared at ./../../include/vlc/deprecated.h:181) ./vlc_instance.c:282: warning: passing argument 5 of ‘libvlc_playlist_add_extended’ from incompatible pointer type ./vlc_instance.c:287: warning: ‘libvlc_playlist_add’ is deprecated (declared at ./../../include/vlc/deprecated.h:165) ./vlc_instance.c: In function ‘vlcInstance_playlist_delete_item’: ./vlc_instance.c:308: warning: ‘libvlc_playlist_delete_item’ is deprecated (declared at ./../../include/vlc/deprecated.h:192) ./vlc_instance.c: In function ‘vlcInstance_playlist_get_media_player’: ./vlc_instance.c:322: warning: ‘libvlc_playlist_get_media_player’ is deprecated (declared at ./../../include/vlc/deprecated.h:201) ./vlc_instance.c: At top level: ./vlc_instance.c:806: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type ./vlc_instance.c:820: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type In file included from ./vlc_module.c:179: ./vlc_mediadescriptor.c: In function ‘vlcMediaDescriptor_add_tag’: ./vlc_mediadescriptor.c:92: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘libvlc_media_add_tag’ ./vlc_mediadescriptor.c:92: error: ‘libvlc_tag_t’ undeclared (first use in this function) ./vlc_mediadescriptor.c:92: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once ./vlc_mediadescriptor.c:92: error: for each function it appears in.) ./vlc_mediadescriptor.c:92: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘psz_tag’ ./vlc_mediadescriptor.c: In function ‘vlcMediaDescriptor_remove_tag’: ./vlc_mediadescriptor.c:109: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘libvlc_media_remove_tag’ ./vlc_mediadescriptor.c:109: error: ‘libvlc_tag_t’ undeclared (first use in this function) ./vlc_mediadescriptor.c:109: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘psz_tag’ ./vlc_mediadescriptor.c: In function ‘vlcMediaDescriptor_tags_count_for_key’: ./vlc_mediadescriptor.c:126: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘libvlc_media_tags_count_for_key’ error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

Any ideas??

[OlivierAubert]

There have been a substantial number of changes in the libvlc API, and not all of them were reflected in the bindings (blame the modifier for this...). I am in the process of reviewing the bindings, but they are not buildable for the moment.

[nico_open]

Thank for this answer.
No worries I will compile the 0.8.6f version of VLC and wait for the 0.9 version.

Thanks again for your time...

[nico_open]

I am just adding a post because a bumped into a "problem" when I tried to compile vlc 0.8.6f with the --enable-mediacontrol-python-bindings.

The ./configure works fine. Here it is :

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./configure --prefix=/usr \ --enable-snapshot --enable-debug \ --enable-dbus-control --enable-musicbrainz \ --enable-mozilla \ --enable-lirc --enable-libtool \ --enable-shout --enable-taglib \ --enable-v4l \ --enable-dvb \ --enable-realrtsp --disable-xvmc \ --enable-svg --enable-dvdread \ --enable-dc1394 --enable-dv \ --enable-theora --enable-faad \ --enable-twolame --enable-real \ --enable-flac --enable-tremor \ --enable-skins2 --enable-qt4 \ --enable-ncurses \ --enable-aa --enable-caca \ --enable-esd --disable-portaudio \ --enable-jack --enable-xosd \ --enable-galaktos --enable-goom \ --enable-ggi \ --disable-cddax --disable-vcdx \ --disable-quicktime --enable-lua \ --enable-mediacontrol-python-bindings

But when I do the make, it returns me the following error:

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building 'vlc' extension gcc -pthread -shared -Wl,-O1 ../../bindings/mediacontrol-python/./vlcglue.o ../../bindings/mediacontrol-python/./../../src/control/mediacontrol_init.o ../../src/libvlc.a -o ../../bindings/mediacontrol-python/lib.linux-i686-2.5/vlc.so -L../.. ../../modules/misc/memcpy/libmemcpymmx.a ../../modules/video_chroma/libi420_rgb_mmx.a ../../modules/video_chroma/libi422_yuy2_mmx.a ../../modules/video_chroma/libi420_ymga_mmx.a ../../modules/video_chroma/libi420_yuy2_mmx.a ../../modules/misc/memcpy/libmemcpymmxext.a ../../modules/misc/memcpy/libmemcpy3dn.a ../../modules/mux/mpeg/libmux_ts.a ../../modules/codec/libtheora.a -L/usr/lib -g -lhal -ldbus-1 -lrt -lpthread -ldl -lm -ldvbpsi -ltheora -logg gcc: ../../src/libvlc.a : Aucun fichier ou répertoire de ce type gcc: ../../modules/misc/memcpy/libmemcpymmx.a : Aucun fichier ou répertoire de ce type gcc: ../../modules/video_chroma/libi420_rgb_mmx.a : Aucun fichier ou répertoire de ce type gcc: ../../modules/video_chroma/libi422_yuy2_mmx.a : Aucun fichier ou répertoire de ce type gcc: ../../modules/video_chroma/libi420_ymga_mmx.a : Aucun fichier ou répertoire de ce type gcc: ../../modules/video_chroma/libi420_yuy2_mmx.a : Aucun fichier ou répertoire de ce type gcc: ../../modules/misc/memcpy/libmemcpymmxext.a : Aucun fichier ou répertoire de ce type gcc: ../../modules/misc/memcpy/libmemcpy3dn.a : Aucun fichier ou répertoire de ce type gcc: ../../modules/mux/mpeg/libmux_ts.a : Aucun fichier ou répertoire de ce type gcc: ../../modules/codec/libtheora.a : Aucun fichier ou répertoire de ce type error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1 make[3]: *** [all] Erreur 1 make[3]: quittant le répertoire « /home/ndel/download/vlc-0.8.6f/bindings/mediacontrol-python » make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Erreur 1 make[2]: quittant le répertoire « /home/ndel/download/vlc-0.8.6f/bindings » make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Erreur 1 make[1]: quittant le répertoire « /home/ndel/download/vlc-0.8.6f » make: *** [all] Erreur 2

I had a look and it seems that theses files are not present where the make is searching them and don't have the exact same names:

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find . -name *.a ./mozilla/libnpvlc.a ./modules/video_chroma/.libs/libi420_ymga_mmx_builtin.a ./modules/video_chroma/.libs/libi422_yuy2_mmx_builtin.a ./modules/video_chroma/.libs/libi420_rgb_mmx_builtin.a ./modules/video_chroma/.libs/libi420_yuy2_mmx_builtin.a ./modules/codec/.libs/libtheora_builtin.a ./modules/misc/memcpy/.libs/libmemcpy3dn_builtin.a ./modules/misc/memcpy/.libs/libmemcpymmx_builtin.a ./modules/misc/memcpy/.libs/libmemcpymmxext_builtin.a ./modules/mux/mpeg/.libs/libmux_ts_builtin.a

I tried with the 0.8.6e version and it is the same punishement. After searching in the wiki, I saw that for the 0.8.6a version it is not possible to --enable-mediacontrol-python-bindings and --enable-libtool at the same time. So I delete the --enable-libtool from my ./configure.
And now the make and the make install works fine.

So maybe it good be good to modify the wiki by saying that --enable-mediacontrol-python-bindings and --enable-libtool cannot be implemented at the same time in the ./configure for all 0.8.6x versions.

Thanks again for the help and cannot wait for a stable 0.9.0O version.

[wlourf]

You need to install the python development packages, which bundle the necessary include files (and other files). On Debian and derivatives (including ubuntu), the package is named python-dev

I think the information install the python-dev package is missing in the wiki page -but I can't edit the page (need a different login from the forum ?)

(for ubuntu 9.04 at least)

Thanks