Python VLC Instance – Setting Meta Data of Application
In this article we will see how we can set the meta information of the application from the Instance class 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. Instance act as a main object of the VLC library with the Instance object we can create media player, list player or any other player available in VLC. Instance class the base classed used in VLC to create various objects. Meta data contains raw information about the application, name can be set to the application with the help of set_user_agent
method.
In order to do this we will use
set_app_id
method with the Instance objectSyntax : instance.set_app_id(id, version, name)
Argument : It takes id, version and name as argument all are in string format
Return : It returns None
Below is the implementation
# importing vlc module import vlc # importing time module import time # creating Instance class object player = vlc.Instance() # setting application meta data player.set_app_id( "vlc.GFG" , "1.2" , "GFG" ) # creating a new media list media_list = player.media_list_new() # creating a media player object media_player = player.media_list_player_new() # creating a new media media = player.media_new( "death_note.mkv" ) # adding media to media list media_list.add_media(media) # setting media list to the mediaplayer media_player.set_media_list(media_list) # start playing video media_player.play() # wait so the video can be played for 5 seconds # irrespective for length of video time.sleep( 5 ) |
Output :
Another example
Below is the implementation
# importing vlc module import vlc # importing time module import time # creating Instance class object player = vlc.Instance() # setting application meta data player.set_app_id( "vlc.GFG-2" , "1.01" , "GFG-2" ) # creating a new media list media_list = player.media_list_new() # creating a media player object media_player = player.media_list_player_new() # creating a new media media = player.media_new( "1.mp4" ) # adding media to media list media_list.add_media(media) # setting media list to the mediaplayer media_player.set_media_list(media_list) # start playing video media_player.play() # wait so the video can be played for 5 seconds # irrespective for length of video time.sleep( 5 ) |
Output :