Python VLC MediaPlayer β Getting Audio Tracks Count
In this article we will see how we can get total number of audio tracks available for 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. For a single video can be available in many audio tracks for example a movie can has english audio track as well as hindi audio track.
In order to do this we will use audio_get_track_count method with the MediaPlayer object
Syntax : media_player.audio_get_track_count()
Argument : It takes no argument
Return : It returns the number of available audio tracks (int), or -1 if unavailable.
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) # setting video scale media_player.video_set_scale( 0.6 ) # setting volume media_player.audio_set_volume( 80 ) # start playing video media_player.play() # wait so the video can be played for 5 seconds # irrespective for length of video time.sleep( 5 ) # getting number of audio tracks value = media_player.audio_get_track_count() # printing value print ("Audio Tracks : ") print (value) |
Output :
Audio Tracks : 3
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) # setting volume media_player.audio_set_volume( 70 ) # setting video scale media_player.video_set_scale( 0.6 ) # start playing video media_player.play() # wait so the video can be played for 5 seconds # irrespective for length of video time.sleep( 5 ) # getting number of audio tracks value = media_player.audio_get_track_count() # printing value print ("Audio Tracks : ") print (value) |
Output :
Audio Tracks : 0