Python VLC MediaPlayer – Getting Track
In this article we will see how we can get track of the MediaPlayer object in the python vlc module. VLC media player is a free and open-source portable cross-platform media player software and streaming media server developed by the VideoLAN project. MediaPlayer object is the basic object in vlc module for playing the video. A video can have multiple tracks which user can select. It can be set with the help of video_set_track method.
In order to do this we will use video_get_track method with the MediaPlayer object Syntax : media_player.video_get_track() Argument : It takes no argument Return : It returns the video track ID (int) or -1 if no active input
Below is the implementation
Python3
# importing vlc moduleimport vlc# importing time moduleimport time# creating vlc media player objectmedia_player = vlc.MediaPlayer()# media objectmedia = vlc.Media("death_note.mkv")# setting media to the media playermedia_player.set_media(media)# setting video scalemedia_player.video_set_scale(0.6)# start playing videomedia_player.play()# wait so the video can be played for 5 seconds# irrespective for length of videotime.sleep(5)# getting track value = media_player.video_get_track()# printing valueprint("Track : ")print(value) |
Output :
Track : 0
Another example Below is the implementation
Python3
# importing vlc moduleimport vlc# importing time moduleimport time# creating vlc media player objectmedia_player = vlc.MediaPlayer()# media objectmedia = vlc.Media("1mp4.mkv")# setting media to the media playermedia_player.set_media(media)# setting video scalemedia_player.video_set_scale(0.6)# start playing videomedia_player.play()# wait so the video can be played for 5 seconds# irrespective for length of videotime.sleep(5)# getting track value = media_player.video_get_track()# printing valueprint("Track : ")print(value) |
Output :
Track : 0
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