Python VLC MediaPlayer – Checking if it can be paused

In this article we will see how we can check if video is pausable in 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. Video can be paused with the help of set_pause method.

In order to do this we will use can_pause method with the MediaPlayer object

Syntax : media_player.can_pause()

Argument : It takes no argument

Return : It returns 1 is true else 0

Below is the implementation

# 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 for length of video
time.sleep(5)

# checking if it can pause
value = media_player.can_pause()

# printing value
print("Can Pause : ")
print(value)

Output :

Can Pause : 
1

Another example
Below is the implementation

# 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 for length of video
time.sleep(5)

# checking if it can pause
value = media_player.can_pause()

# printing value
print("Can Pause : ")
print(value)

Output :

Can Pause : 
1