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Video

The Video widget is used to display video files and streams. Depending on your Video core provider, platform, and plugins, you will be able to play different formats. For example, the pygame video provider only supports MPEG1 on Linux and OSX. GStreamer is more versatile, and can read many video containers and codecs such as MKV, OGV, AVI, MOV, FLV (if the correct gstreamer plugins are installed). Our VideoBase implementation is used under the hood.

Video loading is asynchronous - many properties are not available until the video is loaded (when the texture is created):

def on_position_change(instance, value):
    print 'The position in the video is', value
def on_duration_change(instance, value):
    print 'The duration of the video is', video
video = Video(source='PandaSneezes.avi')
video.bind(position=on_position_change,
           duration=on_duration_change)
class kivy.uix.video.Video(**kwargs)

Bases: kivy.uix.image.Image

Video class. See module documentation for more information.

duration

Duration of the video. The duration defaults to -1, and is set to a real duration when the video is loaded.

duration is a NumericProperty, default to -1.

eos

Boolean, indicates if the video is done playing (reached end of stream).

eos is a BooleanProperty, default to False.

loaded

Boolean, indicates if the video is loaded and ready for playback.

New in version 1.6.0.

loaded is a BooleanProperty, default to False.

options

Options to pass at Video core object creation.

New in version 1.0.4.

options is a kivy.properties.ObjectProperty, default to {}.

play

Deprecated since version 1.4.0: Use state instead.

Boolean, indicates if the video is playing. You can start/stop the video by setting this property:

# start playing the video at creation
video = Video(source='movie.mkv', play=True)

# create the video, and start later
video = Video(source='movie.mkv')
# and later
video.play = True

play is a BooleanProperty, default to False.

Deprecated since version 1.4.0: Use state instead.

position

Position of the video between 0 and duration. The position defaults to -1, and is set to a real position when the video is loaded.

position is a NumericProperty, default to -1.

seek(percent)

Change the position to a percentage of duration. Percentage must be a value between 0-1.

Warning

Calling seek() before video is loaded has no impact.

New in version 1.2.0.

state

String, indicates whether to play, pause, or stop the video:

# start playing the video at creation
video = Video(source='movie.mkv', state='play')

# create the video, and start later
video = Video(source='movie.mkv')
# and later
video.state = 'play'

state is a OptionProperty, default to ‘play’.

volume

Volume of the video, in the range 0-1. 1 means full volume, 0 means mute.

volume is a NumericProperty, default to 1.