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Making a video interruptible - klinetry - Jul-07-2017
Hello!
I'm wanting to run a video with python but have it close if the program detects user input (of any kind). The issues that I have so far is that whenever I initiate the video the window that the video is running in is in focus. I use vlc player to run the video, so there is no way that my script can sense a key press (as the vlc window is in focus) and will only apply hotkey actions if one of those hotkeys are pressed while the video is playing.
I want to play a video, and upon user input it kills the video and stops the script. Does anyone have any ideas?
I'm not stuck on the idea of using vlc player. I just want to get this to work.
This is the code that I'm using so far. Everything works as intended except I have to click in the open terminal and press a key for the video to terminate.
import os
import tty
import sys
import pygame
tty.setraw(sys.stdin.fileno())
key = 'n'
if key == 'n':
os.system("vlc /home/user/Intro.mpg &")
os.system("")
key = sys.stdin.read(1)
if(key != 'n'):
os.system("killall vlc")