[PyQt] Embedding VLC

[Chris Laux]

On Friday 26 February 2010, jaybstory wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 
> I wanted to know if it is possible to embed VLC into a GUI (or to use
> QProcess to somehow open the external application inside a GUI), if so, how
> would I go about accomplishing this?
> 
> Right now, I am using QProcess to open external applications which open in
>  a separate window.  I want to be able to have the application (VLC)
>  embedded within my GUI.
> 
> Thank you in advance.
> 

I made a prototype PyQt app that plays movies using MPlayer which displays the 
video in a plain QWidget. It turns out to be very simple - just pass "-wid" to 
mplayer and then the widget's .winId(). I'm using mpylayer ( 
http://code.google.com/p/mpylayer/ ) to control mplayer from the pyqt GUI. I 
can post some code if you're interested. Also, this is on Linux, I haven't 
tested on Win/Mac.

Just FYI.


-- 
-chris