Python VLC MediaPlayer – Getting Width of selected video
In this article we will see how we can get the width 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. We can get the width of the selected video by passing the index of the video, if no index is specified ongoing video width is returned.
In order to do this we will use
video_get_width
method with the MediaPlayer objectSyntax : media_player.video_get_width(n)
Argument : It takes integer as optional 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 resource locator mrl = "death_note.mkv" # setting mrl to the media player media_player.set_mrl(mrl) # 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 width at index 0 value = media_player.video_get_width( 0 ) # printing width print ( "Width at Index 0 : " ) print (value) |
Output :
Width at Index 0 : 1280
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 resource locator mrl = "1.mp4" # setting mrl to the media player media_player.set_mrl(mrl) # 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 width at index 0 value = media_player.video_get_width( 0 ) # printing width print ( "Width at Index 0 : " ) print (value) |
Output :
Width at Index 0 : 854