Python VLC MediaPlayer – Retaining Reference of it
Last Updated :
10 Feb, 2022
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
import vlc
import time
media_player = vlc.MediaPlayer()
media = vlc.Media( "death_note.mkv" )
media_player.set_media(media)
media_player.play()
time.sleep( 5 )
media_player.retain()
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Output :
Another example
Below is the implementation
Python3
import vlc
import time
media_player = vlc.MediaPlayer()
media = vlc.Media( "1mp4.mkv" )
media_player.set_media(media)
media_player.play()
time.sleep( 5 )
value = media_player.get_media()
media_player.retain()
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Output :
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