Python VLC Instance – Setting Application Name

Last Updated : 29 Aug, 2020

In this article we will see how we can set the application name from the Instance class 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. Instance act as a main object of the VLC library with the Instance object we can create media player, list player or any other player available in VLC. Instance class the base classed used in VLC to create various objects. LibVLC passes name as the user agent string when a protocol requires it.

In order to do this we will use set_user_agent method with the Instance object

Syntax : instance.set_user_agent(name, http)

Argument : It takes name and http agent as argument

Return : It returns None

Below is the implementation

# importing vlc module 
import vlc 
  
# importing time module 
import time 
  
# creating Instance class object 
player = vlc.Instance() 
  
# setting application name 
player.set_user_agent("GFG", "GFG / Python / 3.6") 
  
  
# creating a new media list 
media_list = player.media_list_new() 
  
# creating a media player object 
media_player = player.media_list_player_new() 
  
# creating a new media 
media = player.media_new("death_note.mkv") 
  
# adding media to media list 
media_list.add_media(media) 
  
# setting media list to the mediaplayer 
media_player.set_media_list(media_list) 
  
  
# 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

# importing vlc module 
import vlc 
  
# importing time module 
import time 
  
# creating Instance class object 
player = vlc.Instance() 
  
# setting application name 
player.set_user_agent("GFG-2", "GFG-2 / Python / 3.6") 
  
  
# creating a new media list 
media_list = player.media_list_new() 
  
# creating a media player object 
media_player = player.media_list_player_new() 
  
# creating a new media 
media = player.media_new("1.mp4") 
  
# adding media to media list 
media_list.add_media(media) 
  
# setting media list to the mediaplayer 
media_player.set_media_list(media_list) 
  
  
# start playing video 
media_player.play() 
  
  
# wait so the video can be played for 5 seconds 
# irrespective for length of video 
time.sleep(5) 