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My Snapshot script was taking a long time to complete its processing so I would get a dialog as follows: Extension not responding! [x] Extension 'extension' does not respond. Do you want to kill it now? [Yes] I found that adding: vlc.keep_alive() in the processing loop resets the watchdog timer to l...

Thank you very much mederi! I couldn’t find the answer on my own, but you provided the info I needed. I am now able to change the video path with the script and I can save snapshots to the video folder using the following: vlc.config.set("snapshot-path", VideoFilePath.."Snapshots"...

I’ve been working on a Lua script to take to snapshots at set times. I am using vlc 2.1.x and 2.2.1. I have been able to get a snapshot captured using: -- Take a video snapshot function snapshot() local vout = vlc.object.vout() if not vout then return end vlc.var.set(vout,"video-snapshot",...