video stream to server socket, play this stream from socket (use VLC in MAC)

videoToPlayerFromServerSocket.py

import socket
import subprocess

# Start a socket listening for connections on 0.0.0.0:8000 (0.0.0.0 means
# all interfaces)
server_socket = socket.socket()
server_socket.bind(('0.0.0.0', 8000))
server_socket.listen(0)

# Accept a single connection and make a file-like object out of it
connection = server_socket.accept()[0].makefile('rb')
try:
    # Run a viewer with an appropriate command line. Uncomment the mplayer
    # version if you would prefer to use mplayer instead of VLC
    # For Mac:  alias vlc='/Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC'
    cmdline = '/Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC --demux h264 -'
    #cmdline = 'mplayer -fps 31 -cache 1024 -'
    player = subprocess.Popen(cmdline.split(), stdin=subprocess.PIPE)
    while True:
        # Repeatedly read 1k of data from the connection and write it to
        # the media player's stdin
        data = connection.read(1024)
        if not data:
            break
        player.stdin.write(data)
finally:
    connection.close()
    server_socket.close()
    player.terminate()