Python VLC MediaListPlayer - Getting Media Player of it Last Updated : 29 Aug, 2020 Comments Improve Suggest changes Like Article Like Report In this article we will see how we can get media player object from the MediaListPlayer 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. Media list player is used to play multiple media in a row for example playing a series, instead of taking single media it accepts media list. Its working is almost similar like the MediaPlayer object but it is capable of playing list of media. Media player is the base class of all the player available in vlc module. It can be set with the help of set_media_player method. In order to do this we will use get_media_player method with the MediaListPlayer object Syntax : media_list_player.get_media_player() Argument : It takes no argument Return : It returns MediaPlayer instance Below is the implementation Python3 # importing vlc module import vlc # importing time module import time # creating a media player object media_player = vlc.MediaListPlayer() # creating Instance class object player = vlc.Instance() # creating a new media list media_list = player.media_list_new() # creating a new media media = player.media_new("death_note.mkv") # adding media to media list media_list.add_media(media) # setting media list to the media player media_player.set_media_list(media_list) # new media player instance new = player.media_player_new() # setting media player to it media_player.set_media_player(new) # 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 media player instance value = media_player.get_media_player() # printing value print(value) Output : vlc.MediaPlayer object at 0x0000024430FD1428 Another example Below is the implementation Python3 # importing vlc module import vlc # importing time module import time # creating a media player object media_player = vlc.MediaListPlayer() # creating Instance class object player = vlc.Instance() # creating a new media list media_list = player.media_list_new() # creating a new media media = player.media_new("1.mp4") # adding media to media list media_list.add_media(media) # setting media list to the media player media_player.set_media_list(media_list) # new media player instance new = player.media_player_new() # setting media player to it media_player.set_media_player(new) # 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 media player instance value = media_player.get_media_player() # printing value print(value) Output : vlc.MediaPlayer object at 0x0000024430FDA148 Comment More infoAdvertise with us Next Article Python VLC MediaPlayer - Getting length of current media R rakshitarora Follow Improve Article Tags : Python Python vlc-mediaPlayer Practice Tags : python Similar Reads Python VLC MediaListPlayer - Setting Media Player to it In this article we will see how we can set media player to the MediaListPlayer object in the python vlc module. 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