Python VLC MediaPlayer – Getting Track

In this article we will see how we can get track 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. MediaPlayer object is the basic object in vlc module for playing the video. A video can have multiple tracks which user can select. It can be set with the help of video_set_track method.

In order to do this we will use video_get_track method with the MediaPlayer object Syntax : media_player.video_get_track() Argument : It takes no argument Return : It returns the video track ID (int) or -1 if no active input

Below is the implementation 

Python3

# 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)

# setting video scale
media_player.video_set_scale(0.6)

# 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 track
value = media_player.video_get_track()

# printing value
print("Track : ")
print(value)

Output :

Track : 
0

Another example Below is the implementation 

Python3

# 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)


# setting video scale
media_player.video_set_scale(0.6)

# 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 track
value = media_player.video_get_track()

# printing value
print("Track : ")
print(value)

Output :

Track : 
0