Python VLC MediaPlayer – Getting Current State
In this article we will see how we can get current state 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. MediaPlayer object is the basic object in vlc module for playing the video. We can create a MediaPlayer object with the help of MediaPlayer method. Current state can be playing paused or nothing special if no video is played, it depend on the media player object.
In order to do this we will use get_state method with the MediaPlayer object
Syntax : media_player.get_state()
Argument : It takes no argument
Return : It returns State object
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 for length of video time.sleep( 5 ) # getting current state of the player value = media_player.get_state() # printing value print ("Current State : ") print (value) |
Output :
Current State : State.Playing
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 for length of video time.sleep( 5 ) # getting current state of the player value = media_player.get_state() # printing value print ("Current State : ") print (value) |
Output :
Current State : State.Playing