Python VLC MediaPlayer – Retaining Reference of it
In this article we will see how we can retain reference 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. MediPlyer object is the basic object in vlc module for playing the video. We can create a MediaPlayer object with the help of MediaPlayer
method. We can release this object with the help of release
method.
In order to do this we will use
retain
method with the MediaPlayer objectSyntax : media_player.retain()
Argument : It takes no argument
Return : It returns None
Below is the implementation
Python3
# importing vlc module import vlc # importing time module import time # creating vlc media player object media_player = vlc.MediaPlayer() # media object media = vlc.Media( "death_note.mkv" ) # setting media to the media player media_player.set_media(media) # start playing video media_player.play() # wait so the video can be played for 5 seconds # irrespective of length of video time.sleep( 5 ) # retaining object of media player media_player.retain() |
Output :
Another example
Below is the implementation
Python3
# importing vlc module import vlc # importing time module import time # creating vlc media player object media_player = vlc.MediaPlayer() # media object media = vlc.Media( "1mp4.mkv" ) # setting media to the media player media_player.set_media(media) # start playing video media_player.play() # wait so the video can be played for 5 seconds # irrespective of length of video time.sleep( 5 ) # getting media value = media_player.get_media() # retaining object of media player media_player.retain() |
Output :
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