Way to play video files in Tkinter?

Is there a way to play video files like AVI, MP4, etc.?

I tried using PyMedia, but apparently it only works with Pygame开发者_如何学JAVA.

What is the solution to my problem?

You could use python-gstreamer for playing videos (this works for me on Linux, but it should also work on Windows). This requires python-gstreamer and python-gobject, I would recommend you to use this all-in-one installer.

Here is the code:

import os
import sys
import Tkinter as tkinter

import gobject
import gst

def on_sync_message(bus, message, window_id):
        if not message.structure is None:
            if message.structure.get_name() == 'prepare-xwindow-id':
                image_sink = message.src
                image_sink.set_property('force-aspect-ratio', True)
                image_sink.set_xwindow_id(window_id)

gobject.threads_init()

window = tkinter.Tk()
window.geometry('500x400')

video = tkinter.Frame(window, bg='#000000')
video.pack(side=tkinter.BOTTOM,anchor=tkinter.S,expand=tkinter.YES,fill=tkinter.BOTH)

window_id = video.winfo_id()

player = gst.element_factory_make('playbin2', 'player')
player.set_property('video-sink', None)
player.set_property('uri', 'file://%s' % (os.path.abspath(sys.argv[1])))
player.set_state(gst.STATE_PLAYING)

bus = player.get_bus()
bus.add_signal_watch()
bus.enable_sync_message_emission()
bus.connect('sync-message::element', on_sync_message, window_id)

window.mainloop()

The following code works for me with GStreamer 1.0 and Python 3 under Ubuntu 16.04. It also enables eight video players stacked in a column in a single window. (The sound channels are simply mixed together.)

The libav/ffmpeg fork created problems under Ubuntu 14.04, which seem to be solved under 16.04. Note that you need the package gstreamer1.0-libav in addition to gstreamer1.0-plugins-*.

The code builds on the 2011 answer by @koehlma, which assumed GStreamer 0.10 and Python 2.

import sys
import os

if sys.version_info[0] < 3:
    import Tkinter as tkinter
else:
    import tkinter

import gi
gi.require_version('Gst', '1.0')
from gi.repository import Gst, GObject

# Needed for set_window_handle():
gi.require_version('GstVideo', '1.0')
from gi.repository import GstVideo

def set_frame_handle(bus, message, frame_id):
    if not message.get_structure() is None:
        if message.get_structure().get_name() == 'prepare-window-handle':
            display_frame = message.src
            display_frame.set_property('force-aspect-ratio', True)
            display_frame.set_window_handle(frame_id)

NUMBER_OF_FRAMES = 8 # with more frames than arguments, videos are repeated
relative_height = 1 / float(NUMBER_OF_FRAMES)

# Only argument number checked, not validity.
number_of_file_names_given = len(sys.argv) - 1
if number_of_file_names_given < 1:
    print('Give at least one video file name.')
    sys.exit()
if number_of_file_names_given < NUMBER_OF_FRAMES:
    print('Up to', NUMBER_OF_FRAMES, 'video file names can be given.')
file_names = list()
for index in range(number_of_file_names_given):
    file_names.append(sys.argv[index + 1])

window = tkinter.Tk()
window.title("Multiple videos in a column using Tk and GST 1.0")
window.geometry('480x960')

Gst.init(None)
GObject.threads_init()

for number in range(NUMBER_OF_FRAMES):
    display_frame = tkinter.Frame(window, bg='')
    relative_y = number * relative_height
    display_frame.place(relx = 0, rely = relative_y,
            anchor = tkinter.NW, relwidth = 1, relheight = relative_height)
    frame_id = display_frame.winfo_id()

    player = Gst.ElementFactory.make('playbin', None)
    fullname = os.path.abspath(file_names[number % len(file_names)])
    player.set_property('uri', 'file://%s' % fullname)
    player.set_state(Gst.State.PLAYING)

    bus = player.get_bus()
    bus.enable_sync_message_emission()
    bus.connect('sync-message::element', set_frame_handle, frame_id)

window.mainloop()

Make use of tkvideoplayer version>=2.0.0 library, which can help you to play, pause, seek, get metadata of the video etc.

pip install tkvideoplayer

Sample example:

import tkinter as tk
from tkVideoPlayer import TkinterVideo

root = tk.Tk()

videoplayer = TkinterVideo(master=root, scaled=True)
videoplayer.load(r"samplevideo.mp4")
videoplayer.pack(expand=True, fill="both")

videoplayer.play() # play the video

root.mainloop()

An example to create a complete video player is in the GitHub page

Refer documentation

Tha easy way is by using tkVideo

to install it

pip install tkVideo

this is script that show you how does it work easily!

from tkinter import *
from tkvideo import tkvideo

root = Tk()
my_label = Label(root)
my_label.pack()
player = tkvideo("C:\\path\\to\\video.mp4", my_label, loop = 1, size = (1280,720))
player.play()

root.mainloop()

this is PyPI link to it for more informations.

koehlma's answer is quite outdated. The "Tkinter" should be "tkinter"; "gst" should "Gst"; "playbin2" should be "playbin". "STATE_PLAYING" should be "State.PLAYING". The below setup and codes works on Debian 11 as of Apr 5, 2022.

First of all, the packages you need to install are

apt install python3-gi python3-gst-1.0 python3-tk

And the code should be updated to:

import os
import sys
import tkinter as tkinter

import gi
gi.require_version('Gst', '1.0')
from gi.repository import Gst as gst
from gi.repository import GObject as gobject

def on_sync_message(bus, message, window_id):
        return
        # message does not have structure field any more.
        if not message.structure is None:
            if message.structure.get_name() == 'prepare-xwindow-id':
                image_sink = message.src
                image_sink.set_property('force-aspect-ratio', True)
                image_sink.set_xwindow_id(window_id)

gobject.threads_init()

window = tkinter.Tk()
window.geometry('500x400')

video = tkinter.Frame(window, bg='#000000')
video.pack(side=tkinter.BOTTOM,anchor=tkinter.S,expand=tkinter.YES,fill=tkinter.BOTH)

window_id = video.winfo_id()

gst.init(None)
player = gst.ElementFactory.make('playbin', 'player')
player.set_property('video-sink', None)
player.set_property('uri', 'file://%s' % (os.path.abspath(sys.argv[1])))
player.set_state(gst.State.PLAYING)

bus = player.get_bus()
bus.add_signal_watch()
bus.enable_sync_message_emission()
bus.connect('sync-message::element', on_sync_message, window_id)

window.mainloop()

I've recently made a package to do this, borderless video player. It also plays audio in sync.

pip install bvPlayer

The code:

from bvPlayer import bvPlayer

bvPlayer("file.mp4")

The repository