Python VLC MediaPlayer – Getting Number of Video outputs
In this article we will see how we can get number of video outputs 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. Video outputs are the output source for normal devices there will only have single video output but it can be greater than 1 as well.
In order to do this we will use has_vout method with the MediaPlayer object Syntax : media_player.has_vout() Argument : It takes no argument Return : It returns integer
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)
# getting number of video outputs
value = media_player.has_vout()
# printing value
print("Number of Video output(s) : ")
print(value)
Output :
Number of Video output(s) :
1
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)
# getting number of video outputs
value = media_player.has_vout()
# printing value
print("Number of Video output(s) : ")
print(value)
Output :
Number of Video output(s) :
1