Python VLC MediaPlayer – Checking if it is playing or not
In this article we will see how we can check if the video is playing in 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 uses play
method to play the video.
In order to do this we will use is_playing
method with the MediaPlayer object
Syntax : media_player.is_playing()
Argument : It takes no argument
Return : It returns 0 if not playing and 1 if playing
Below is the implementation
import vlc
import time
media_player = vlc.MediaPlayer()
media = vlc.Media( "death_note.mkv" )
media_player.set_media(media)
media_player.play()
time.sleep( 5 )
value = media_player.is_playing()
print ( "Is playing : " )
print (value)
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Output :
Is playing :
1
Another example
Below is the implementation
import vlc
import time
media_player = vlc.MediaPlayer()
media = vlc.Media( "1mp4.mkv" )
media_player.set_media(media)
time.sleep( 5 )
value = media_player.is_playing()
print ( "Is playing : " )
print (value)
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Output :
Is playing :
0
Last Updated :
10 Feb, 2022
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