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Video

Video playing control. Based on the media_kit Dart/Flutter package.

Prerequisites

On Linux, the libmpv package must be installed. See this section for more information.

Packaging

To build your Flet app that uses Video control add flet-video to dependencies key of the [project] section of your pyproject.toml file, for example:

[project]
...
dependencies = [
  "flet==0.27.6",
  "flet-video==0.1.0",
]

Examples​

Live example

Basic Example​

python/controls/utility/video/video-example.py
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Properties​

alignment​

Defines the Alignment of the viewport.

Value is of type Alignment and defaults to alignment.center.

aspect_ratio​

Defines the aspect ratio of the video player.

autoplay​

Whether the video should start playing automatically.

fit​

Value is of type ImageFit and defaults to ImageFit.NONE.

filter_quality​

Filter quality of the texture used to render the video output.

Value is of type FilterQuality and defaults to FilterQuality.LOW.

::: note Android was reported to show blurry images when using FilterQuality.HIGH. Prefer the usage of FilterQuality.MEDIUM on this platform. :::

fill_color​

Defines the color used to fill the video background.

muted​

Defines whether the video player should be started in muted state.

Defaults to False.

resume_upon_entering_foreground_mode​

Whether to resume the video when application enters foreground mode. Has effect only if pause_upon_entering_background_mode is also set to True.

show_controls​

Whether to show the video player controls.

Defaults to True.

shuffle_playlist​

Defines whether the playlist should be shuffled.

Defaults to False.

subtitle_configuration​

Defines the subtitle configuration for the video player.

Value is of type VideoSubtitleConfiguration.

title​

Defines the name of the underlying window & process for native backend. This is visible inside the windows' volume mixer.

volume​

Defines the volume of the video player.

Value ranges between 0.0 and 100.0 (default).

pause_upon_entering_background_mode​

Whether to pause the video when application enters background mode.

pitch​

Defines the relative pitch of the video player.

Defaults to 1.0.

playback_rate​

Defines the playback rate of the video player.

Defaults to 1.0.

playlist​

The video playlist consisting of VideoMedia objects. This property is read-only and can be set only once - at Video class instantiation. To modify it later on, use the playlist_add(media) and playlist_remove(media_index) methods.

playlist_mode​

Represents the mode of playback for the playlist.

Value is of type PlaylistMode.

wakelock​

Whether to acquire wake lock while playing the video. When True, device's display will not go to standby/sleep while the video is playing.

Defaults to False.

Methods​

get_current_position()​

Returns the current position of the video player in milliseconds.

get_duration()​

Returns the duration of the currently playing VideoMedia in the playlist in milliseconds.

is_completed()​

Returns True if the video player has reached the end of the currently playing VideoMedia in the playlist, False otherwise.

is_playing()​

Returns True if the video player is currently playing, False otherwise.

jump_to(media_index)​

Jumps to the VideoMedia at the specified index(media_index) in the playlist.

next()​

Jumps to the next VideoMedia in the playlist.

pause()​

Pauses the video player.

play()​

Starts playing the video.

play_or_pause()​

Cycles between play and pause states of the video player. (Plays if paused, pauses if playing)

playlist_add(media)​

Appends/Adds the given media (of type VideoMedia) to the playlist.

playlist_remove(media_index)​

Removes the VideoMedia at the specified index(media_index) from the playlist.

previous()​

Jumps to the previous VideoMedia in the playlist.

seek(position_milliseconds)​

Seeks the currently playing VideoMedia in the playlist by the specified amount of milliseconds.

stop()​

Stops recording session and release internal recorder resource. It returns a string which is the location of the recorded file. On web, it returns the blob which could be opened using page.lauch_url(). On other platforms, it returns the path to the file which is the output_path parameter passed to start_recording() method.

Events​

on_enter_fullscreen​

Fires when the video enters fullscreen

on_error​

Fires when an error occurs.

on_completed​

Fires when a video completes.

on_track_changed​

Fires when a video track changes, returns an Int of track currently playing.

on_exit_fullscreen​

Fires when the video exits fullscreen

on_loaded​

Fires when the video player is initialized and ready for playback.