Welcome to potplayer Documentation

Call a media player to play some video/music from Python is Pain!

Pot Player is a universal media player software for windows. And the pot player playlist (*.dpl) file is a pure text file to manipulate playlist.

Now with potplayer

Quick Links

• GitHub Homepage
• Usage
• PyPI download
• Install
• Issue submit and feature request
• API reference and source code

Usage

The main usage is to manipulate video/audio/image play list:

>>> import potplayer
>>> playlist = potplayer.PlayList() # create a PlayList
>>> playlist.add(r"august_holiday.jpg") # add some `to play` files, can be video/audio/image
>>> playlist.add(r"life_goes_on.jpg")
>>> playlist.add(r"trees_cloud_fog_landscape.jpg")
>>> playlist.dump("play") # dump play list to play.dpl, so you can open it with PotPlayer

You can also use run() and kill() method to open anything with PotPlayer, or, kill it.

>>> potplayer.run("play.dpl") # open a play list, of course you can use this with a video
>>> potplayer.kill() # kill all running PotPlayer process

Install

potplayer is released on PyPI, so all you need is:

$ pip install potplayer

To upgrade to latest version:

$ pip install --upgrade potplayer