Question

Does anyone know how to implement the VLC Python bindings? I downloaded vlc.py and vlcwidget.py from the VLC wiki (http://wiki.videolan.org/Python_bindings) and tried to run vlcwidget. Other than having vlc installed, do I need to do anything else, or should I just be able to run python vlcwidget.py ? Because that is not working for me. I m using Python2.5 and VLC 0.8.6e on Ubuntu 8.04.

The problem has to do with my libvlc shared library, I think. That library is used to create this instance:

dll=ctypes.CDLL( libvlc.so )

and then later, the error occurs here:

if hasattr(dll,  libvlc_media_player_new ): ...

dll apparently doesn t have a libvlc_media_player_new attribute and so fails to create other objects it needs. Specifically, the libvlc_media_player_new function isn t created.

Answer 1

$ git clone git://git.videolan.org/vlc.git && cd vlc
$ git log -Slibvlc_media_player_new
...
commit bf1292e44390c6469483cea3817d6c2a3dbd811c
Author: Pierre d Herbemont <pdherbemont@videolan.org>
Date:   Sun Mar 30 03:59:32 2008 +0200

    libvlc: rename libvlc_media_descriptor to libvlc_media and libvlc_media_instance to libvlc_media_player.

There was no libvlc_media_player_new prior to this commit, which went in some time between 0.8.4 and 0.9. (I m not sure when; VLC s git repository seems to be missing tags in that range.)

The Python bindings use the newer API. You ll have to upgrade VLC to use them.

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