Python VLC MediaPlayer – Pausing it

In this article we will see how we can pause the media 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. MediaPlayer 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 play the video with the help of play method.

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

Syntax : media_player.event_manager() 

Argument : It takes integer as argument, play/resume if zero, pause if non-zero. 

Return : It returns None

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("D:\\pych\\bhuvan\\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)

# pausing the video
media_player.set_pause(1)

Output : This video will play for 5 seconds then it will get paused 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)



# start playing video
media_player.play()

# wait so the video can be played for 3 seconds
# irrespective for length of video
time.sleep(3)


# pausing the video
media_player.set_pause(1)

Output : Similarly this video will get played for 3 seconds then it got paused