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Hi, I am trying to get VLC to automatically take video snapshots spread out over the duration of the entire video, and save the assorted images to a designated folder. It's been suggested that I use the "scene filter" and I've made the attempt but have hit a snag... 1) Can anyone tell me w...

If no one gave a detailed response, it's because no one has enough time to write a tutorial for every user question... the first reponse in google gives you a command line you can adapt for you. http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=66180 You it still does not work, ask a precise quest...

Use the scene filter The wha? The scene filter http://lmgtfy.com/?q=vlc+scene+filter I already searched scene + filter after he posted it a few days ago - thanks for the condescension Sébastien :roll: Googling it and looking at the results, reading up & testing it out did not work . I am still ...

I like the Shift-S feature in VLC which takes screenshots one at a time. In order to take multiple screenshots of the video spread out by a minute or two, I'll advance the video ahead and then press Shift-S again, over & over until I get a nice selection to review and dwindle down to the favori...

Use the scene filter

The wha?

Can you or someone please expand - (pretend you're explaining it to someone who has no idea what your talking about.)

I like the Shift-S feature in VLC which takes screenshots one at a time. In order to take multiple screenshots of the video spread out by a minute or two, I'll advance the video ahead and then press Shift-S again, over & over until I get a nice selection to review and dwindle down to the favorit...

Ah-so.

Anyone?

Running VLC 0.9.8a on Windows XP Just updated an older version of VLC to 0.9.8a, and as always, it remains my preferred media player. :) One minor inconvenience is that unlike previous versions of the player, when opening VLC using Ctrl-O or manually by selecting the "Media" button followe...

Hello again

Even after trying the subsequent suggestions from posters Fakeout & zcot, I have been unable to resolve this screen capture issue.
If there are any other suggestions, please post! Thanks.

The underlying cause as to why you cannot capture the VLC screen has to do with how Windows draws the pixels to the screen and how your screen-capture program grabs this data. Most applications rely on the windows framework to handle the graphics, and windows draws everything to an offscreen buffer...

if you're running several instances (or video outputs) of VLC, only the first one will use overlay ... so your screen shots will work on the other instances. Thanks for the reply dionoea :) I don't quite follow you, but I can tell you that I only ever use one instance of VLC at a time... Anyone kno...

Use version 0.8.2, Run you movie Select Menu->VIdeo->Snapshot And the snapshot will be in your My Pictures folder. :| Thanks for the response, but the whole point of my inquiry is to find out why the combination of snag-it & vlc almost never work and on occasion do - I am not looking for an alt...

Update to versio 0.82, it has built-in snapshot function !!

I forgot to mention that I already tried the later versions and got the same result. I'm just using 0.8.0 because it's less buggy.

So the issue still remains - can anyone offer any ideas/tips on what do here?
Thanks again.

Hi, While using VLC (0.8.0) I'll hit the scroll lock button, and then use my image capturing software ("Snag-It") to take a pic of a video scene. 99% of the time, here's what I get: http://img295.echo.cx/img295/1510/error12aq.png OR... http://img295.echo.cx/img295/1141/error22vj.png Howeve...