Python VLC MediaPlayer – Checking if it is playing or not
Last Updated :
10 Feb, 2022
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
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