Overview:

Kivy has a video player widget which is a composite widget, derived from gridlayout class of Kivy.
The class VideoPlayer has several attributes that can customise the the videoplayer. They include options for
- Controlling the fullscreen view
- Initial state of the video. The video could be in playing state or paused state or in stopped state.
- Setting the position in the timeline of video, setting the volume of the video
- Annotations for the video
- Thumbnail of the video

Example:

import kivy

kivy.require('1.9.1') # the kivy version required

# import the kivy modules/widgets

from kivy.app import App

from kivy.uix.widget import Widget

from kivy.uix.gridlayout import GridLayout

from kivy.uix.videoplayer import VideoPlayer

# An App running a video file

class MyVideoApp(App):

def build(self):

self.player = VideoPlayer(source='/users/vinodh/downloads/Sintel_DivXPlus_6500kbps.mkv', state='play', options={'allow_stretch': True})

return (self.player)

# Start the Video App

if __name__ == '__main__':

MyVideoApp().run()