I need to be able to take a snapshot of a video, that is being played in Firefox 2 using the VLC mozilla plugin (latest stable version 0.9..9a), on a Linux machine.
Looking through the forum I found some javascript code that theoretically will lead to the solution of my problem:
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<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
function doSnapshot()
{
var VLC = document.getElementById("vlc");
var X = VLC.getVariable("key-snapshot");
VLC.setVariable("key-pressed", X);
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<embed type="application/x-vlc-plugin"
name="VLC"
pluginspage="http://www.videolan.org"
id="VLC"
autoplay="yes" loop="no" hidden="no"
width="160"
height="128"
target="some_file.avi"
/>
<input type="button" value="Take Sanpshot" onclick="doSnapshot()">
</body>
I checked and if I press shift+s while I'm playing the video (sometimes I have to actually click on the video) a snapshot is saved in ~/.local/vlc/vlcsnap***.png, so this functionality is supported on the plugin, but how can I do it from javascript???????
I would appreciate any suggestions,
thanks
