Python VLC MediaPlayer – Getting Video Tracks Description
In this article we will see how we can get the video track description 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. In some videos there are different video tracks are available so that user can switch in between them.
In order to do this we will use video_get_track_description
method with the MediaPlayer object
Syntax : media_player.video_get_track_description()
Argument : It takes no argument
Return : It returns list
Below is the implementation
import vlc
import time
media_player = vlc.MediaPlayer()
mrl = "death_note.mkv"
media_player.set_mrl(mrl)
media_player.play()
time.sleep( 5 )
value = media_player.video_get_track_description()
print ( "Video Track Description" )
print (value)
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Output :
Video Track Description
[(-1, b'Disable'), (0, b'Track 1')]]
Another example
Below is the implementation
import vlc
import time
media_player = vlc.MediaPlayer()
mrl = "1.mp4"
media_player.set_mrl(mrl)
media_player.play()
time.sleep( 5 )
value = media_player.video_get_track_description()
print ( "Video Track Description" )
print (value)
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Output :
Video Track Description
[(-1, b'Disable'), (0, b'Track 1')]
Last Updated :
18 Aug, 2020
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