Lost Control over VLC

[deanhystad]

You have a problem with the design of your program. tkinter.mainloop() blocks other code from running. You also have a loop that looks for key presses that blocks other code from running. Somehow you need to get these to work together.

I think I would move this loop:

       Ended = 6#set arbitrary value
       current_state = media_player.get_state()
       while current_state != Ended:
            ...

To a function that I would call periodically using root.after(milliseconds, func_to_call). Another idea is use event binding to direct key presses to some function. You are already doing this with some key presses, but not all. And there is always multi-threading. Using multi-threading you could set up a keyboard listener that runs in one thread and have tkinter run in another thread. Getting the two threads to work together can be tricky.