Python VLC MediaPlayer –Setting Media Role
In this article we will see how we can set role 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. Role can be available role or can be customized one.
In order to do this we will use set_role method with the MediaPlayer object
Syntax : media_player.set_role(role)
Argument : It takes role as argument for available one it can be role id
Return : It returns 0 on success, -1 on error
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 media player role media_player.set_role( 2 ) # 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 ) |
Output : 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 media player role media_player.set_role( 2 ) # 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 ) |
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