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I'm looking for a way to take screenshots of movies and I'd like to save them to the same directory the media file is in. Is there a way to do this in VLC. I know in the screenshot directory if you use $N in your files it will put the file name in the screenshot. Is there one for the current directory?

You can set the output directory from Preferences -> Video -> Video Snapshots to "." (a simple dot without quotes). Then save, exit and restart VLC.

This works on Windows, and should work on Linux, but I haven't tried with other OSes though.

Awesome thank you. I should have tried that it, it's the way of referencing the current directory in linux shells

Has this functionality been rendered inoperative in recent versions?

When I use the $N feature, all I end up with is a file named $N.