In this article we will see how we can get the audio tracks description of 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. In some videos there are different audio tracks are available so that user can switch in between them for example a video can be available in different languages so it may have more than one audio track.
In order to do this we will use
audio_get_track_description
method with the MediaPlayer objectSyntax : media_player.audio_get_track_description()
Argument : It takes no argument
Return : It returns list
Below is the implementation
# importing vlc module import vlc
# importing time module import time
# creating vlc media player object media_player = vlc.MediaPlayer()
# media resource locator mrl = "death_note.mkv"
# setting mrl to the media player media_player.set_mrl(mrl) # start playing video media_player.play() # wait so the video can be played for 5 seconds # irrespective for length of video time.sleep( 5 )
# getting audio Tracks description value = media_player.audio_get_track_description()
# printing subtitle description print ( "Audio Tracks Description" )
print (value)
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Output :
Audio Tracks Description [(-1, b'Disable'), (1, b'English - [English]'), (2, b'English Commentary - [English]')]
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 resource locator mrl = "1.mp4"
# setting mrl to the media player media_player.set_mrl(mrl) # start playing video media_player.play() # wait so the video can be played for 5 seconds # irrespective for length of video time.sleep( 5 )
# getting audio Tracks description value = media_player.audio_get_track_description()
# printing subtitle description print ( "Audio Tracks Description" )
print (value)
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Output :
Audio Tracks Description []