Python bindings - Streaming YouTube

[rj540]

Hello all!
I am trying to make a program that streams YouTube videos using VLC.
I know that the VLC standalone can do this using Open Network--> simple "youtube.com/watch?v=xxxxx" URL.

However, how can I accomplish this with Python bindings? When I try to use vlc.MediaPlayer() and I set the media (in various ways) to a YouTube URL, I can't get it to play, or tell me the title of the movie, which makes me think I need to open the stream in some way I'm not seeing.

How to stream YouTube with Python bindings?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Do you have the logs?

[rj540]

I'm sorry, but I'm a newb, and I can't seem to get a log intialized? If I'm supposed to enter a "cls" argument, I'm not sure what that would be.

>>> log=vlc.Log()

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#37>", line 1, in <module>
log=vlc.Log()
File "/Users/alexandria/Desktop/vlc.py", line 1286, in __new__
return _Constructor(cls, ptr)
File "/Users/alexandria/Desktop/vlc.py", line 150, in _Constructor
raise VLCException('(INTERNAL) ctypes class.')
VLCException: (INTERNAL) ctypes class.

[OlivierAubert]

A Log class cannot be instanciated alone, a reference must be obtained through the Instance.log_open() method. Anyway, you do not need to mess with the log API. You can simply do

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i = vlc.Instance('--verbose 2'.split()) p = i.media_player_new() p.set_mrl('your_youtube_url') p.play()

and you will get log messages on stderr.