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Python VLC MediaPlayer – Retaining Reference of it

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In this article we will see how we can retain reference 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 release this object with the help of release method.

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

Syntax : media_player.retain()

Argument : It takes no argument

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("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 of length of video
time.sleep(5)
  
# retaining object of media player
media_player.retain()


Output :

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 5 seconds
# irrespective of length of video
time.sleep(5)
  
# getting media
value = media_player.get_media()
  
# retaining object of media player
media_player.retain()


Output :



Last Updated : 10 Feb, 2022
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