Video¶

Core class for reading video files and managing the video Texture.

Changed in version 1.10.0: The pyglet, pygst and gi providers have been removed.

Changed in version 1.8.0: There are now 2 distinct Gstreamer implementations: one using Gi/Gst working for both Python 2+3 with Gstreamer 1.0, and one using PyGST working only for Python 2 + Gstreamer 0.10.

Note

Recording is not supported.

class kivy.core.video.VideoBase(**kwargs)[source]¶

Bases: kivy.event.EventDispatcher

VideoBase, a class used to implement a video reader.

Parameters

filename: str: Filename of the video. Can be a file or an URI.
eos: str, defaults to ‘pause’: Action to take when EOS is hit. Can be one of ‘pause’, ‘stop’ or ‘loop’.

Changed in version 1.4.0: added ‘pause’
async: bool, defaults to True: Load the video asynchronously (may be not supported by all providers).
autoplay: bool, defaults to False: Auto play the video on init.

Events

on_eos: Fired when EOS is hit.
on_load: Fired when the video is loaded and the texture is available.
on_frame: Fired when a new frame is written to the texture.

duration¶: Get the video duration (in seconds)

filename¶: Get/set the filename/uri of the current video

load()[source]¶: Load the video from the current filename

pause()[source]¶: Pause the video

New in version 1.4.0.

play()[source]¶: Play the video

position¶: Get/set the position in the video (in seconds)

seek(percent, precise=True)[source]¶: Move on percent position

state¶: Get the video playing status

stop()[source]¶: Stop the video playing

texture¶: Get the video texture

unload()[source]¶: Unload the actual video

volume¶: Get/set the volume in the video (1.0 = 100%)

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