1. Boring explanation
Today I was in need of taking some screenshots from a video recording I did. Since I haven't used the snap shot function for a long time (VLC have being re-installed since then) I had to select which directory to store the image files. I had already windows exporer open at at the output folder, so I just copied and pasted the full folder path.
OS and VLC version
OS : Windows 10
VLC 3.0.16
What happens and what I tried (not helping)
Then I started to play the video file, and tried to make a snap shot (Shift+S) keyboard shortcut. Then nothing. By that I mean, absolutely no response at all. No screen flickering and neither was any file created. Searching online, mainly hits from this forum, I tested out all the steps below, none made any difference:
- Relocate to a local folder (first choice was a network path).
- Disabled hardware acceleration(there is an old thread saying this is adamant)
- Adding an extra backslash character at the end of folder path
By pure chance, I then decided to use the browse button to manually locate the output folder. This was mostly because I had giving up (I couldn't find more good advices online that also was newer than 2006'ish) and somehow thaught maybe the folder path are somehow incorrect.
So I did, and look and behold - all of a sudden the snap shots was working.
The conclusion for now - think this may be why snap shots sometimes doesn't work
The only thing I did different was to use the Browse-button, instead of just paste the folder path. I haven't tried to paste some folder path over the existing path so I don't know if that will revert back so the snap shot again fall back to a non-working state.
So far it seems that the Browse-button also "unlocks" the snap shot feature if this hasn't being used before
