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jan youga
jan youga

Reputation: 51

how to embed a vlc instance in a tkinter frame

i wanna embed a vlc instance in a tkinter frame. already there is a similar code here that show a terminal in a tkinter window but i wanna show a vlc instead. here is my vlc code:

import vlc
Instance = vlc.Instance()
player = Instance.media_player_new()
Media = Instance.media_new('http://192.168.1.3:8080')
Media.add_option('network-caching=0')
player.set_media(Media)
player.play()

and here is simple tkinter code

try:
    # Python2
     from Tkinter import *
except ImportError:
    # Python3
    from tkinter import *
root = Tk()
root.geometry("380x480")
root.resizable(width=False, height=False)

frame1 = LabelFrame(root, width=459, height=300, bd=5)
frame1.grid(row=1, column=0, padx=10)

i want to show that vlc stream in this tkinter frame

Upvotes: 5

Views: 11924

Answers (3)

prettybug
prettybug

Reputation: 168

I had the same problem and solved it by setting the window I want the video to be played in with set_xwindow:

player.set_xwindow(display.winfo_id())

Another answer here uses set_hwnd which did not work for me (played only audio, while giving the same error of "no frame" etc.). When I exchanged it with set_xwindow it started to work and displayed the video as well as played the sound.

For vlc I ended up with:

Instance = vlc.Instance()
player = Instance.media_player_new()
Media = Instance.media_new('example.mp4')
player.set_xwindow(display.winfo_id())
player.set_media(Media)
player.play()

And for tkinter:

root = tk.Tk()

frame = tk.Frame(root, width=700, height=600)
frame.pack()

display = tk.Frame(frame, bd=5)
display.place(relwidth=1, relheight=1)

root.mainloop()

Upvotes: 2

takluiper
takluiper

Reputation: 689

With python-vlc, and vlc player installed (I had to intall the 32 bits version)

    self.Instance = vlc.Instance()
    self.player = self.Instance.media_player_new()
    self.player.set_hwnd(self.label.winfo_id())#tkinter label or frame

    media = self.Instance.media_new(f)
    self.player.set_media(media)
    self.player.play()
    sleep(1.5)

    duration = self.player.get_length() / 1000
    sleep(duration-1.5)
    self.player.stop()

Upvotes: 1

Roland Smith
Roland Smith

Reputation: 43495

The VLC repo has a complete example for Tkinter.

Upvotes: 1

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