In this article we will see how we can pause the media in 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. We can create a MediaPlayer object with the help of MediaPlayer method. We can play the video with the help of play method.
In order to do this we will use set_pause method with the MediaPlayer object
Syntax : media_player.event_manager()
Argument : It takes integer as argument, play/resume if zero, pause if non-zero.
Return : It returns None
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("D:\\pych\\bhuvan\\death_note.mkv")# setting media to the media playermedia_player.set_media(media)# start playing videomedia_player.play()# wait so the video can be played for 5 seconds# irrespective for length of videotime.sleep(5)# pausing the videomedia_player.set_pause(1) |
Output : This video will play for 5 seconds then it will get paused 
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)# start playing videomedia_player.play()# wait so the video can be played for 3 seconds# irrespective for length of videotime.sleep(3)# pausing the videomedia_player.set_pause(1) |
Output : Similarly this video will get played for 3 seconds then it got paused 
