Python VLC Instance – Enabling Media/Broadcast

In this article we will see how we can enable or disable the single media from the Instance class 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. Instance act as a main object of the VLC library with the Instance object we can create media player, list player or any other player available in VLC. Instance class the base classed used in VLC to create various objects. We can add multiple media to the instance, so by disabling the video that video doesn’t play.

In order to do this we will use vlm_set_enabled method with the Instance object

Syntax : instance.vlm_set_enabled(name, True)

Argument : It takes media name and bool as argument

Return : It returns 0 on success, -1 on error

Below is the implementation

# importing vlc module
import vlc

# importing time module
import time

# creating Instance class object
player = vlc.Instance()

# creating a new media list
media_list = player.media_list_new()

# creating a media player object
media_player = player.media_list_player_new()

# creating a new media
media = player.media_new("death_note.mkv")

# adding media to media list
media_list.add_media(media)

# setting media list to the mediaplayer
media_player.set_media_list(media_list)


# start playing video
media_player.play()


# wait so the video can be played for 5 seconds
# irrespective for length of video
time.sleep(5)

# making media disable
player.vlm_set_enabled("death_note", False)

Output :

Another example
Below is the implementation

# importing vlc module
import vlc

# importing time module
import time

# creating Instance class object
player = vlc.Instance()

# creating a new media list
media_list = player.media_list_new()

# creating a media player object
media_player = player.media_list_player_new()

# creating a new media
media = player.media_new("1.mp4")

# adding media to media list
media_list.add_media(media)

# setting media list to the mediaplayer
media_player.set_media_list(media_list)


# start playing video
media_player.play()


# wait so the video can be played for 5 seconds
# irrespective for length of video
time.sleep(5)

# making media disable
player.vlm_set_enabled("1", False)

Output :