Python VLC MediaPlayer – Getting Cursor

In this article we will see how we can get the cursor position in 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. Mouse pointer coordinates over a video are expressed as 2-tuple (x, y). Coordinates are expressed in terms of the decoded video resolution, not in terms of pixels on the screen/viewport.

In order to do this we will use video_get_cursor method with the MediaPlayer object

Syntax : media_player.video_get_cursor()

Argument : It takes no argument

Return : It returns tuple

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 cursor co-ordinates
value = media_player.video_get_cursor()

# printing cursor co-ordinates
print("Cursor Co-ordinates : ")
print(value)

Output :

Cursor Co-ordinates : 
(655, 436)

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 cursor co-ordinates
value = media_player.video_get_cursor()

# printing cursor co-ordinates
print("Cursor Co-ordinates : ")
print(value)

Output :

Cursor Co-ordinates : 
(607, 267)