Unable to run the following code using python bindings for vlc

Question

I started with Python Bindings for the first time with: operating system- ubuntu 14.04 vlc-1.1.2 and python-2.7.6 Here is the sample code I am working on:

import vlc 
instance = vlc.Instance()
media_ply = instance.media_player_new()
media_ply.set_mrl("test1.mp3")
media_ply.play()

But I am constantly getting the following error message:

 Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "vlc1.py", line 3, in <module>
 instance = vlc.Instance()
 File "/home/ankita/env2/mmenv5/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vlc.py",                line 1551, in __new__
 return libvlc_new(len(args), args)
 File "/home/ankita/env2/mmenv5/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vlc.py",        line 3903, in libvlc_new
 ctypes.c_void_p, ctypes.c_int, ListPOINTER(ctypes.c_char_p))
 File "/home/ankita/env2/mmenv5/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vlc.py", line 246, in _Cfunction
 raise NameError('no function %r' % (name,))
 NameError: no function 'libvlc_new'

Can anybody tell me , did I do something wrong?

Answer 1

I was getting same error. Then I solved it by installing vlc (stupid mistake :D) using

sudo apt-get install vlc

Answer 2

download vlc.py from vlc.py

Place vlc.py in the same directory as your program.

Note that you must have the VLC Media Player program already installed on your system.

To test it quickly in python:

>>> import vlc
>>> p=vlc.MediaPlayer('test1.mp3')
>>> p.play()