Python VLC MediaPlayer - Getting Video Tracks Description Last Updated : 18 Aug, 2020 Comments Improve Suggest changes 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 Company Wise Interview Preparation R rakshitarora Follow Improve Article Tags : Python Python vlc-library Practice Tags : python Similar Reads Interview Preparation Interview Preparation For Software Developers Must Coding Questions - Company-wise Must Do Coding Questions - Topic-wise Company-wise Practice Problems Company Preparation Competitive Programming Software Design-Patterns Company-wise Interview Experience Experienced - Interview Experiences Internship - Interview Experiences Practice @Geeksforgeeks Problem of the Day Topic-wise Practice Difficulty Level - School Difficulty Level - Basic Difficulty Level - Easy Difficulty Level - Medium Difficulty Level - Hard Leaderboard !! Explore More... Data Structures Arrays Linked List Stack Queue Binary Tree Binary Search Tree Heap Hashing Graph Advance Data Structures Matrix String All Data Structures Algorithms Analysis of Algorithms Searching Algorithms Sorting Algorithms Pattern Searching Geometric Algorithms Mathematical Algorithms Randomized Algorithms Greedy Algorithms Dynamic Programming Divide & Conquer Backtracking Branch & Bound All Algorithms Programming Languages C C++ Java Python C# Go Lang SQL PHP Scala Perl Kotlin Web Technologies HTML CSS JavaScript Bootstrap Tailwind CSS AngularJS ReactJS jQuery NodeJS PHP Web Design Web Browser File Formats Computer Science Subjects Operating Systems DBMS Computer Network Computer Organization & Architecture TOC Compiler Design Digital Elec. & Logic Design Software Engineering Engineering Mathematics Data Science & ML Complete Data Science Course Data Science Tutorial Machine Learning Tutorial Deep Learning Tutorial NLP Tutorial Machine Learning Projects Data Analysis Tutorial Tutorial Library Python Tutorial Django Tutorial Pandas Tutorial Kivy Tutorial Tkinter Tutorial OpenCV Tutorial Selenium Tutorial GATE CS GATE CS Notes Gate Corner Previous Year GATE Papers Last Minute Notes (LMNs) Important Topic For GATE CS GATE Course Previous Year Paper: CS exams Like