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_timemethod with the MediaPlayer objectSyntax : media_player.get_time()
Argument : It takes no argument
Return : It returns integer (milleseconds)
Below is the implementation
# importing vlc moduleimport vlc # importing time moduleimport time # creating vlc media player objectmedia_player = vlc.MediaPlayer() # media objectmedia = vlc.Media("death_note.mkv") # setting media to the media playermedia_player.set_media(media) # start playing videomedia_player.play() # wait so the video can be played for 5 seconds# irrespective for length of videotime.sleep(5) # getting current media timevalue = media_player.get_time() # printing valueprint("Current Media time : ")print(value) |
Output :
Current Media time : 611
Another example
Below is the implementation
# importing vlc moduleimport vlc # importing time moduleimport time # creating vlc media player objectmedia_player = vlc.MediaPlayer() # media objectmedia = vlc.Media("1mp4.mkv") # setting media to the media playermedia_player.set_media(media) # start playing videomedia_player.play() # wait so the video can be played for 5 seconds# irrespective for length of videotime.sleep(5) # getting current media timevalue = media_player.get_time() # printing valueprint("Current Media time : ")print(value) |
Output :
Current Media time : 402
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