How to play a video by Python programming

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You can play videos in any environment using python’s OpenCV library.

This is a great library for image processing.

For playing video in the web-browser you will need django or flask with openCV integration.

Check out these links if interested:

The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines

Flask (A Python Microframework)

Welcome to Pyramid, a Python Web Framework(for smaller apps)

But if you just wanna play video from your local PC, that’s a 10-liner(provided openCV is installed, you can install it using pip : pip install opencv-python)

here is the sample code.

1. import cv2 
2. import numpy as np 
3.  
4. cap = cv2.VideoCapture('Your_video.mp4') 
5. ''' 
6. Make sure your_video is in the same dir, else mention the full path. 
7. ''' 
8. while True: 
9. ret, frame = cap.read() 
10. gray = cv2.cvtColor(frame,cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY) 
11. cv2.imshow('frame',frame) 
12. cv2.imshow('grayF',gray) 
13. if cv2.waitKey(1) & 0xFF == ord('q'): 
14. break 
15.  
16. cap.release() 
17. cv2.destroyAllWindows()