Python VLC MediaPlayer – Getting Current media time
In this article we will see how we can get current media time 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. We can get the length of the current media with the help of get_length
method.
In order to do this we will use
get_time
method with the MediaPlayer objectSyntax : media_player.get_time()
Argument : It takes no argument
Return : It returns integer (milleseconds)
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 ) # getting current media time value = media_player.get_time() # printing value print ( "Current Media time : " ) print (value) |
Output :
Current Media time : 611
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 ) # getting current media time value = media_player.get_time() # printing value print ( "Current Media time : " ) print (value) |
Output :
Current Media time : 402