How to Add Playback of Videos to Google Colab Notebooks

How to Add Playback of Videos to Google Colab Notebooks

Python code can be written and run on Google Colab's powerful platform in a notebook setting. While it's amazing for working with data, coding, and visualizations, there are instances when you might want to add videos directly to your Colab notebooks rather than just using static photos and plots. In this article, we'll use the ipywidgets package to achieve this.

Prerequisites Ensure the following before you start:

[01] A Google Colab profile

[02] A video file you have on Google Drive

1. Install the Required Libraries

!pip install ipywidgets

2. Access the Video File in Google Drive

Path to the video file in your Google Drive

video_path = '/content/drive/MyDrive/sample.mp4'

3.Include a Video

import ipywidgets as widgets

from IPython.display import display

Create a video widget

video_widget = widgets.Video.from_file(video_path)

Display the video widget

display(video_widget)

4. Run the Notebook

Please feel free to build on this framework by providing more information, personalizing the material, and offering more context or examples. Incorporate videos into your data analysis projects or provide explanations about various video formats and how to fix frequent problems.

Prasad D Wilagama