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Hey Cyborgc4, I did get it working in the end. I still don't know the exact issue. It seems to be with the amount of time you give the VLC player to initialise. So you can't call the snapshot command from the same function that you use to initialise the VLC player. I'll post back once I figure out w...

Hi Ultraseamus, I know that this is a very old thread, but did you manage to solve the issue in the end? I'm having the same problem with the libvlc_video_take_snapshot method. No error is thrown when the method is called. I've set "--verbose=2" to get a full log and there is no mention of...

Ok i find solution to this issue : I'm guilty ! The Sleep function using to allow VLC player play the avi. was frozing the main Window. So i launch VLC reading file method in a thread and avi is displayed fine and embedded

Thank you Rahzm....thank you. Now I can go get some sleep

Thank you, this helped me get it working. I can confirm that "20151021-0203" nightly build works. The strange thing is, I used another build prior to this and it was working fine (and for some reason I remember it to be the 2.2.1 release). Then it stopped working after I installed other ve...