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 objectSyntax : media_player.is_playing()
Argument : It takes no argument
Return : It returns 0 if not playing and 1 if playing
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 of length of video time.sleep( 5 )
# checking if it is playing value = media_player.is_playing()
# printing value print ( "Is playing : " )
print (value)
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Output :
Is playing : 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 + commenting it # media_player.play() # wait so the video can be played for 5 seconds # irrespective of length of video time.sleep( 5 )
# checking if it is playing value = media_player.is_playing()
# printing value print ( "Is playing : " )
print (value)
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Output :
Is playing : 0