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VLC Mp4 Media Widget

russ_hensel edited this page Jul 29, 2026 · 2 revisions

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Introduction

VLC is a great app for watching video. This tab brings some of that experience to pyqt_by_example by directly using some vlc and qt code.

  • play pause and stop a video
  • control position in video
  • control volume
  • this is an advanced control.

A bit of history, this is a claude generated tab, with human oversite and review. It took about an hour to the first working tab. It succeeded where 2 earlier approaches failed after 2 to 6 hours

We do not have mutates for this object. The base code seems to be enough. In process is another version where all the vlc code is in its own object. See

The code for the tab is: ....

Interactions

Interaction to try on this tab:

  • we hope all are self explanatory
  • for the standard interactions see .....
  • poke around -- do not forget to look at the whole GUI for responses.

You can use the wat-inspect to find out more or dive into the documentation which is all over the web.

AASI

Ask A Simulated Intelligence ( AI ) Sites like ChatGPT do a pretty good job on QT. Here is a prompt that we have found useful:

We had claude write up some notes, see .....

Screenshot

( Just run the application in your ide )

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