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 object

Syntax : 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

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