Python VLC MediaPlayer – Checking if it is scrambled
In this article we will see how we can check if current media is scrambled 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. 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. Encrypted / Scrambled means that a particular TV channel is secure or locked by the DTH operator or other provider.
In order to do this we will use
program_scrambled
method with the MediaPlayer objectSyntax : media_player.program_scrambled()
Argument : It takes no argument
Return : It returns 1 is true else 0
Below is the implementation
# 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 for length of video time.sleep( 5 ) # checking if it scrambled value = media_player.program_scrambled() # printing value print ( "Scrambled Program: " ) print (value) |
Output :
Scrambled Program: 0
Another example
Below is the implementation
# 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 for length of video time.sleep( 5 ) # checking if it scrambled value = media_player.program_scrambled() # printing value print ( "Scrambled Program: " ) print (value) |
Output :
Scrambled Program: 0