Get current timepoint from Totem application
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2095848
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I want to find the exact time where a media file is currently paused at (or playing) in a running Totem instance using D-Bus. To be precise, what I want is available from the Totem python console (if the plugin exists and is enabled) by the following command:
>>> print totem_object.props.current_time
732616
which I understand is milliseconds.
So far:
I've never used D-Bus before, so I'm in the process of going through D-Bus and python-dbus documentation. I've also fired up D-Feet and found that the org.gnome.Totem bus name and the /Factory object I can use the org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties interface methods.
I'm currently at this point:
>>> import dbus
>>> seb= dbus.SessionBus()
>>> t= seb.get_object('org.gnome.Totem', '/Factory')
>>> tif= dbus.Interface(t, 'org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties')
>>> tif.GetAll('')
dbus.Dictionary({}, signature=dbus.Signature('sv'))
I can't find even a proper how-to, so any help will be greatly appreciated.
Solution
I'm currently researching the the API for a different reason, I need to retrieve the path or location being played, and I stumbled upon this question.
First things first, you'll want to activate the D-Bus Service Plugin (Edit -> Plugins) which will expose the org.mpris.Totem service. Then on the /Player object and the org.freedesktop.MediaPlayer interface you can use the PositionGet() method to retrieve the current position.
This returns totem.props.current_time you were talking about.
Here's some code:
import dbus
T_SERVICE_NAME = "org.mpris.Totem"
T_OBJECT_PATH = "/Player"
T_INTERFACE = "org.freedesktop.MediaPlayer"
session_bus= dbus.SessionBus()
totem = session_bus.get_object(T_SERVICE_NAME, T_OBJECT_PATH)
totem_mediaplayer = dbus.Interface(totem, dbus_interface=T_INTERFACE)
print totem_mediaplayer.PositionGet()
As for the whole org.gnome.Totem service and the Get/GetAll methods, I don't understand the entire purpose of those either. Looks like it has more to do with DBus itself than Totem specifically.
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