Working with video

The video reproduction is a useful tool for any app. In this app, we will load a widget to reproduce a video file in our app.

Getting ready

It is necessary to have a video file in the usual format to be reproduced in our app (.avi, .mov, .mpg, .mp4, .flv, .wmv, .ogg). If you do not have one, you can visit https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page to get free media.

How to do it…

In this recipe, we are going to use a simple Python file to create our app within a player widget. To complete the task, follow these:

1. Import the usual kivy packages.

2. Import the VideoPlayer package.

3. Define the MyW() class.

4. Define the __init__() method.

5. Define videoplayer with your video.

6. Add the video player to the app.

   import kivy
   kivy.require('1.9.0')
   from kivy.app import App
   from kivy.uix.widget import Widget
   from kivy.uix.videoplayer import VideoPlayer
   
   class MyW(Widget):
   
       def __init__(self, **kwargs):
           super(MyW, self).__init__(**kwargs)
           player= VideoPlayer( source='GOR.MOV',state...