Python VLC MediaPlayer – Setting Current Audio Channel Last Updated : 19 Aug, 2020 Summarize Comments Improve Suggest changes Share Like Article Like Report In this article we will see how we can set the current audio channel 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. An audio channel or audio track is an audio signal communications channel in a storage device or mixing console, used in operations such as multi-track recording and sound reinforcement. In order to do this we will use audio_set_channel method with the MediaPlayer object Syntax : media_player.audio_set_channel(n) Argument : It takes channel id as argument 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 audio channel media_player.audio_set_channel(1) # 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 volume media_player.audio_set_volume(70) # setting video scale media_player.video_set_scale(0.6) # setting audio channel media_player.audio_set_channel(1) # 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 : Comment More infoAdvertise with us Next Article Python VLC MediaPlayer âGetting Audio Delay R rakshitarora Follow Improve Article Tags : Python Python vlc-library Practice Tags : python Similar Reads Python VLC MediaPlayer – Setting Current Audio Track In this article we will see how we can set the current audio track 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 basi 2 min read Python VLC MediaPlayer – Getting Current Audio Channel In this article we will see how we can get the current audio channel 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 basi 2 min read Python VLC MediaPlayer –Setting Audio Delay In this article we will see how we can set audio delay to 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 Current Audio Track In this article we will see how we can get the current audio track 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 Audio Delay In this article we will see how we can get audio delay to 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