Python VLC Instance - Setting Meta Data of Application Last Updated : 29 Aug, 2020 Comments Improve Suggest changes Like Article Like Report In this article we will see how we can set the meta information of the application 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. Meta data contains raw information about the application, name can be set to the application with the help of set_user_agent method. In order to do this we will use set_app_id method with the Instance object Syntax : instance.set_app_id(id, version, name) Argument : It takes id, version and name as argument all are in string format Return : It returns None Below is the implementation Python3 # importing vlc module import vlc # importing time module import time # creating Instance class object player = vlc.Instance() # setting application meta data player.set_app_id("vlc.GFG", "1.2", "GFG") # 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 Python3 # importing vlc module import vlc # importing time module import time # creating Instance class object player = vlc.Instance() # setting application meta data player.set_app_id("vlc.GFG-2", "1.01", "GFG-2") # 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) Output : Comment More infoAdvertise with us Next Article Python VLC Instance - Setting Meta Data of Application R rakshitarora Follow Improve Article Tags : Python Python vlc-library Practice Tags : python Similar Reads Python VLC Instance - Setting Application Name 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 th 2 min read Python VLC Instance – Deleting Single Media In this article we will see how we can delete the single media 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 2 min read Python VLC Instance – Setting Loop on the media In this article we will see how we can set loop on the single media 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 o 2 min read Python VLC Instance - Creating new Media Instance In this article we will see how we can create a Media instance 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 2 min read Python VLC Instance - Unsetting Logging Callbacks In this article we will see how we can unset the logging callbacks 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 2 min read Like