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 object is the basic object in vlc module for playing the video. For a single video can be available in many audio tracks for example a movie can has english audio track as well as hindi audio track.
In order to do this we will use audio_get_track_count method with the MediaPlayer object
Syntax : media_player.audio_get_track_count()
Argument : It takes no argument
Return : It returns the number of available audio tracks (int), or -1 if unavailable.
Below is the implementation
Python3
# importing vlc moduleimport vlc# importing time moduleimport time# creating vlc media player objectmedia_player = vlc.MediaPlayer()# media objectmedia = vlc.Media("death_note.mkv")# setting media to the media playermedia_player.set_media(media)# setting video scalemedia_player.video_set_scale(0.6)# setting volumemedia_player.audio_set_volume(80)# start playing videomedia_player.play()# wait so the video can be played for 5 seconds# irrespective for length of videotime.sleep(5)# getting number of audio tracksvalue = media_player.audio_get_track_count()# printing valueprint("Audio Tracks : ")print(value) |
Output : 
Audio Tracks : 3
Another example Below is the implementation
Python3
# importing vlc moduleimport vlc# importing time moduleimport time# creating vlc media player objectmedia_player = vlc.MediaPlayer()# media objectmedia = vlc.Media("1mp4.mkv")# setting media to the media playermedia_player.set_media(media)# setting volumemedia_player.audio_set_volume(70)# setting video scalemedia_player.video_set_scale(0.6)# start playing videomedia_player.play()# wait so the video can be played for 5 seconds# irrespective for length of videotime.sleep(5)# getting number of audio tracksvalue = media_player.audio_get_track_count()# printing valueprint("Audio Tracks : ")print(value) |
Output :
Audio Tracks : 0
