Python 2.7.14— importing vlc module on mac OS

python-vlc is just Python bindings for libVLC.

Without that library, it won’t do you any good, because all it does is try to load that library (a .dylib, .so, or .dll, depending on your platform) and call functions out of it.

There should be installation instructions at the wiki page linked above, but on a Mac, the easiest way is to just install the VLC player. I know that if you install it with Homebrew, you get the library, in a location that python-vlc can find. But I think even the binary installer from the front page of the main VideoLAN website will work as well.

If you’re using Homebrew, you’ll want to read the docs for when to search brew vs. brew cask vs. other taps,¹ or search somewhere like Mac App Store for the current status. But at present, the appropriate command appears to be:

brew cask install vlc

_{1. Generally, anything that you’d expect to find as a double-clickable app in /Applications, as opposed to a Unix command-line tool or a support library, is going to be a cask, and therefore in the tap cask, which has special shortcuts to access it. But that’s a relatively new thing, and not every recipe has been converted yet.}