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Python VLC Instance – Setting Meta Data of Application

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In this article we will see how we can set the meta information of the application 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. Meta data contains raw information about the application, name can be set to the application with the help of set_user_agent method.

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

Syntax : instance.set_app_id(id, version, name)

Argument : It takes id, version and name as argument all are in string format

Return : It returns None

Below is the implementation




# importing vlc module
import vlc
  
# importing time module
import time
  
# creating Instance class object
player = vlc.Instance()
  
# setting application meta data
player.set_app_id("vlc.GFG", "1.2", "GFG")
  
# 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)


Output :

Another example
Below is the implementation




# importing vlc module
import vlc
  
# importing time module
import time
  
# creating Instance class object
player = vlc.Instance()
  
# setting application meta data
player.set_app_id("vlc.GFG-2", "1.01", "GFG-2")
  
  
# 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)


Output :



Last Updated : 29 Aug, 2020
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