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Hi

I managed to add the ActiveX control(0.8.4) to a Visual C++ project without any problems at all. Thanks for making this simple.

What I need to do for my application, is to *not* have the activeX window present on the screen, but to be able to get the images into a buffer instead. I will then process this buffer directly, and render myself.

From the API supplied, this is not possible. However, I can see in the source code of one of the nightly builds (0.8.5) that there is a function called "getPicture()". Ive never had any experience with cygwin or mingw, and my workload is so high, I dont have the time at the moment to learn how to cross compile.

Before anyone suggests that I hide the render window and grab the bitmap, I cant as the context is hidden (I have tried!)


Any help *greatly* appreciated.

Thanks in advance

John

What if rather than hiding it, you leave it visible but put something in front of it.

If I put something(a window) infront of it, and grab the bitmap I seem to grab the bitmap of the window that is in front of it.

Have you looked through the VLC source code?

Actually Ive only looked at the ActiveX source code, trying to find where the ActiveX gets the images, but am failing miserably. Im an embedded developer not a windows developer, and Im finding this rather difficult.

Any pointers *greatly* appreciated