PyMPlayer: Lightweight and dynamic MPlayer wrapper with a Pythonic API

PyMPlayer provides several classes for easily using MPlayer in Python.

• Features

  • Pythonic interfaces to MPlayer
  • Full support for MPlayer commands and properties (generated at runtime)
  • asyncore, PyGTK, and PyQt integration
  • MS Windows support
  • Python 3 compatibility

• Requirements

  • MPlayer >= 1.0rc3 http://www.mplayerhq.hu/
  • Python >= 2.6 http://www.python.org/

  Optional

  • PyGTK >= 2.12 http://www.pygtk.org/
  • PyQt >= 4.5 http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/

• Installation

  To install (having made sure that the dependencies are installed and working) do (as root normally):

  python setup.py install

  (You can optionally provide a prefix using the following form, but if you do remember to setup PYTHONPATH accordingly)

  python setup.py install [--prefix=<prefix>]

• Documentation

  Consult the wiki pages in http://code.google.com/p/python-mplayer/

• Copyright and Licensing

  The PyMPlayer package and submodules (mplayer/*.py) are released under the terms of LGPL 3. See LICENSE for the full license.

  PyMPlayer is Copyright (C) 2007-2011 Darwin M. Bautista.

  The LGPL is Copyright (C) Free Software Foundation.

• Contact Info

  Project Page: http://code.google.com/p/python-mplayer/ URL and download: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/PyMPlayer/

  Author and Maintainer: Darwin M. Bautista djclue917@gmail.com