[PYTHON] Load a new media without resetting the player

[Nepho]

Hi,

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

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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.

[Nepho]

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.

[Nepho]

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

[eayvh]

Create media list

[Nepho]

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.

[Nepho]

Still no one to help me?