GtkPlayerView

Synopsis

GtkPlayerView(args=(), stderr=None)

Name	Default Value	Valid Values	Description
args	()	tuples	additional MPlayer arguments
stderr	None	None, subprocess.STDOUT, or any writable file object	handle for MPlayer's stderr

GtkPlayerView is a subclass of gtk.Socket. Because of this, it can be readily used in GTK applications. Moreover, it uses GPlayer internally to control MPlayer.

Properties

Name	Description
player	GPlayer instance

Custom Signals

Name	Parameters	Emitted when
eof	EOF code (type: int)	'EOF code' is seen in MPlayer's stdout

Sample Usage

import gtk
from mplayer.gtk2 import GtkPlayerView

# Create a window
w = gtk.Window()
w.set_size_request(640, 480)
w.set_title('GtkPlayer')

# Quit application when this window is closed
w.connect('destroy', gtk.main_quit)

# Create a player view
v = GtkPlayerView()

# Quit application after file has finished playing
v.connect('eof', gtk.main_quit)

w.add(v)
w.show_all()

# Play the file
v.player.loadfile('/path/to/file.mkv')

# Enter the GTK event loop
gtk.main()