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Posted: **01 Apr 2015 16:04**

Hi,

Whenever I want to change the played video, I do:

player.set_media(instance.media_new("path/to/media")
player.play()

However, what bothers me is that player.play() sometimes closes the current VLC instance and opens a new one, usually with a different size/video resolution.

This really bothers me because I need to keep the focus on one specific VLC instance, and this messes up my thing.

Any way to make sure it won't restart/load a new VLC instance when I change a media? Thanks in advance.

Posted: **02 Apr 2015 20:07**

Anyone to help me?

I'd just like the new media to always be opened in the same VLC window.
Because right now, sometimes, it closes the old one and opens a new one, which
makes my other software lose the focus on the VLC window.

Please? It can't be hard.

Edit: A bit more of the code.

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import vlc, time

i = vlc.Instance()
player = i.media_player_new()
player.set_media(i.media_new("path/to/media")
player.play()

time.sleep(5)

player.set_media(i.media_new("path/to/other/media") # The media has different resolution and encoding
player.play() # If I don't put this, the old media will just freeze and nothing happens

time.sleep(5)

And this is at the second play() call that the VLC window will sometimes close, and re-open for the new media, which causes my other program to lose the focus on it.

I don't really know what are the reasons behind this. I don't think it has something to do with the video's resolution. It might be the encoding, because I don't think the container has something to do with it either.

Posted: **05 Apr 2015 10:44**

Still looking for an answer to that, if anyone knows anything about it

Posted: **05 Apr 2015 12:56**

Create media list

Posted: **05 Apr 2015 13:21**

The media list object is bugged, I already filled a ticket for this about one week ago.
When you add medias to the playlist, it can cause a access violation error, more or less randomly. Well, it looks random at least.
Plus, for some reason, with a MediaListPlayer, you can't access any information about the media being played...
Or can you? I'm all ears!

Edit: The fact that I can't create playlists with the Python bindings isn't that a big problem, since I can always create them in VLC
before using my program, but the rest of the problems (can't access name of currently played media) really sucks.

Posted: **09 Apr 2015 18:43**

Still no one to help me?

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