In this article you’ll see the code to create a video player with PyQT5.
It contains a menu bar for opening the video file.
PyQt5 supports multimedia, including a video widget: QVideoWidget. This is used in combination with the class QMediaPlayer.
The QMediaPlayer class has all kinds of properties that you may know from video players: audioAvailable, duration, position, volume and a few others.
Related course: Create PyQt Desktop Appications with Python (GUI)
Introduction
We create a window (QMainWindow) that contains a widget for its contents (QWidget).
Then we add the videowidget and control widgets.
videoWidget = QVideoWidget() |
The player will only play a video, in this example we don’t use back buttons, stop buttons.
QMediaPlayer Example
The complete code below:# PyQt5 Video player
#!/usr/bin/env python
from PyQt5.QtCore import QDir, Qt, QUrl
from PyQt5.QtMultimedia import QMediaContent, QMediaPlayer
from PyQt5.QtMultimediaWidgets import QVideoWidget
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import (QApplication, QFileDialog, QHBoxLayout, QLabel,
QPushButton, QSizePolicy, QSlider, QStyle, QVBoxLayout, QWidget)
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QMainWindow,QWidget, QPushButton, QAction
from PyQt5.QtGui import QIcon
import sys
classVideoWindow(QMainWindow):
def__init__(self, parent=None):
super(VideoWindow, self).__init__(parent)
self.setWindowTitle("PyQt Video Player Widget Example - pythonprogramminglanguage.com")
self.mediaPlayer = QMediaPlayer(None, QMediaPlayer.VideoSurface)
videoWidget = QVideoWidget()
self.playButton = QPushButton()
self.playButton.setEnabled(False)
self.playButton.setIcon(self.style().standardIcon(QStyle.SP_MediaPlay))
self.playButton.clicked.connect(self.play)
self.positionSlider = QSlider(Qt.Horizontal)
self.positionSlider.setRange(0, 0)
self.positionSlider.sliderMoved.connect(self.setPosition)
self.errorLabel = QLabel()
self.errorLabel.setSizePolicy(QSizePolicy.Preferred,
QSizePolicy.Maximum)
# Create new action
openAction = QAction(QIcon('open.png'), '&Open', self)
openAction.setShortcut('Ctrl+O')
openAction.setStatusTip('Open movie')
openAction.triggered.connect(self.openFile)
# Create exit action
exitAction = QAction(QIcon('exit.png'), '&Exit', self)
exitAction.setShortcut('Ctrl+Q')
exitAction.setStatusTip('Exit application')
exitAction.triggered.connect(self.exitCall)
# Create menu bar and add action
menuBar = self.menuBar()
fileMenu = menuBar.addMenu('&File')
#fileMenu.addAction(newAction)
fileMenu.addAction(openAction)
fileMenu.addAction(exitAction)
# Create a widget for window contents
wid = QWidget(self)
self.setCentralWidget(wid)
# Create layouts to place inside widget
controlLayout = QHBoxLayout()
controlLayout.setContentsMargins(0, 0, 0, 0)
controlLayout.addWidget(self.playButton)
controlLayout.addWidget(self.positionSlider)
layout = QVBoxLayout()
layout.addWidget(videoWidget)
layout.addLayout(controlLayout)
layout.addWidget(self.errorLabel)
# Set widget to contain window contents
wid.setLayout(layout)
self.mediaPlayer.setVideoOutput(videoWidget)
self.mediaPlayer.stateChanged.connect(self.mediaStateChanged)
self.mediaPlayer.positionChanged.connect(self.positionChanged)
self.mediaPlayer.durationChanged.connect(self.durationChanged)
self.mediaPlayer.error.connect(self.handleError)
defopenFile(self):
fileName, _ = QFileDialog.getOpenFileName(self, "Open Movie",
QDir.homePath())
if fileName != '':
self.mediaPlayer.setMedia(
QMediaContent(QUrl.fromLocalFile(fileName)))
self.playButton.setEnabled(True)
defexitCall(self):
sys.exit(app.exec_())
defplay(self):
if self.mediaPlayer.state() == QMediaPlayer.PlayingState:
self.mediaPlayer.pause()
else:
self.mediaPlayer.play()
defmediaStateChanged(self, state):
if self.mediaPlayer.state() == QMediaPlayer.PlayingState:
self.playButton.setIcon(
self.style().standardIcon(QStyle.SP_MediaPause))
else:
self.playButton.setIcon(
self.style().standardIcon(QStyle.SP_MediaPlay))
defpositionChanged(self, position):
self.positionSlider.setValue(position)
defdurationChanged(self, duration):
self.positionSlider.setRange(0, duration)
defsetPosition(self, position):
self.mediaPlayer.setPosition(position)
defhandleError(self):
self.playButton.setEnabled(False)
self.errorLabel.setText("Error: " + self.mediaPlayer.errorString())
if __name__ == '__main__':
app = QApplication(sys.argv)
player = VideoWindow()
player.resize(640, 480)
player.show()
sys.exit(app.exec_())
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