Unable to read get right video streaming values when using Python VLC C-Type bindings

[sanoop]

I am trying to achieve following.

1) I have an apple HLS media server installed in remote server
2) On another server I am using Python VLC as my client and trying to do a video streaming.
3) Streaming works fine. But while streaming I am not able to get media values like "Bit rate", "frame rate (fps)", get_stats etc. It is returning zero/wrong values.

Any help will be appreciated. I am sharing the code below.

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def videoStream(mediaDir): Instance = vlc.Instance("--no-video") player = Instance.media_player_new() #URL=("https://192.168.106.16/mediaContent/" + mediaDir + "/mediaFilePlaylist.m3u8") URL=("http://192.168.106.16/mediaContent/" + mediaDir + "/sample.mp4") #media = Instance.media_new('http://192.168.106.16/mediaContent/media-1/mediaFilePlaylist.m3u8') media = Instance.media_new(URL) media.get_mrl() player.set_media(media) player.play() time.sleep(10) status=player.is_playing() while status==1: print('State: %s' % player.get_state()) #print('media: %s' % bytes_to_str(media.get_mrl())) #print('Current time: %s/%s' % (player.get_time(), media.get_duration())) print('Rate: %s' % player.get_rate()) print('FPS: %s' % player.get_fps()) #print('Video Statistics: %s' % media.get_stats()) #print player.get_position() #print player.get_time() #print media.get_stats(vlc.mediaStats) time.sleep(5)

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State: State.Playing Rate: 1.0 FPS: 0.0

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

I am not sure this is supported for HLS.