Python VLC MediaPlayer - Getting Video Tracks Description Last Updated : 18 Aug, 2020 Summarize Comments Improve Suggest changes Share Like Article Like Report In this article we will see how we can get the video track description 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. In some videos there are different video tracks are available so that user can switch in between them. In order to do this we will use video_get_track_description method with the MediaPlayer object Syntax : media_player.video_get_track_description() Argument : It takes no argument Return : It returns list Below is the implementation Python3 1== # 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 video Tracks description value = media_player.video_get_track_description() # printing subtitle description print("Video Track Description") print(value) Output : Video Track Description [(-1, b'Disable'), (0, b'Track 1')]] Another example Below is the implementation Python3 1== # 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 video Tracks description value = media_player.video_get_track_description() # printing subtitle description print("Video Track Description") print(value) Output : Video Track Description [(-1, b'Disable'), (0, b'Track 1')] Comment More infoAdvertise with us Next Article Python VLC MediaPlayer - Getting Subtitle Description R rakshitarora Follow Improve Article Tags : Python Python vlc-library Practice Tags : python Similar Reads Python VLC MediaPlayer - Getting Audio Tracks Description In this article we will see how we can get the audio tracks description 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 b 2 min read Python VLC MediaPlayer - Getting Title Description In this article we will see how we can get the title description 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 objec 2 min read Python VLC MediaPlayer - Getting Subtitle Description In this article we will see how we can get the subtitle description 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 2 min read Python VLC MediaPlayer - Getting Full Title Description In this article we will see how we can get the title description 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 ob 2 min read Python VLC MediaPlayer – Getting Track Count In this article we will see how we can get track count 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 vl 2 min read Python VLC MediaPlayer – Getting Audio Tracks Count In this article we will see how we can get total number of audio tracks available for 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 ob 2 min read Like