Kivy Cookbook

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 ...