In this article we will see how we can play the previous item in the MediaListPlayer 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. Media list player is used to play multiple media in a row for example playing a series, instead of taking single media it accepts media list. Its working is almost similar like the MediaPlayer object but it is capable of playing list of media. We can play a media with the help of play method but it start playing media from index 0, and media at given index can be played with the help of play_item_at_index method.
In order to do this we will use
previousmethod with the MediaListPlayer objectSyntax : media_list_player.previous()
Argument : It takes no argument
Return : It returns 0 upon success -1 if the item wasn’t found.
Below is the implementation
# importing vlc module import vlc
# importing time module import time
# creating a media player object media_player = vlc.MediaListPlayer()
# creating Instance class object player = vlc.Instance()
# creating a new media list object media_list = player.media_list_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 media player media_player.set_media_list(media_list) # 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 media player media_player.set_media_list(media_list) # start playing video media_player.play_item_at_index(1)
# playing previous media in list media_player.previous() # wait so the video can be played for 5 seconds # irrespective for length of video time.sleep(5)
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Another example
Below is the implementation
# importing vlc module import vlc
# importing time module import time
# creating a media player object media_player = vlc.MediaListPlayer()
# creating Instance class object player = vlc.Instance()
# creating a new media list media_list = player.media_list_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 media player media_player.set_media_list(media_list) # 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 media player media_player.set_media_list(media_list) # start playing video media_player.play_item_at_index(1)
# playing previous media in list media_player.previous() # wait so the video can be played for 5 seconds # irrespective for length of video time.sleep(5)
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