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Posted: **12 Feb 2019 05:11**

Hello! I apologize in advance if this is a dumb question - I attempted to google an answer, but I can't find any up-to-date info.

I downloaded VLC in the hopes of being able to use it to take continuous screenshots of a two-minute video (basically, I want to capture every few frames as image files in a folder...and I would rather not, er, do it manually). A quick search before I downloaded made me think that this was possible, but it turns out that all of the information I found was for the 2013 version of the program and those instructions no longer seem to apply (the menu item they direct to doesn't exist). I tried to figure it out myself, but I'm failing so far.

Is this still possible? If so, how do I do it?

Posted: **12 Feb 2019 09:49**

Hi, you can look at the scene filter

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Scene video filter (scene)
 Send your video to picture files
      --scene-format <string>    Image format
          Format of the output images (png, jpeg, ...).
      --scene-width <integer>    Image width
          You can enforce the image width. By default (-1) VLC will adapt to
          the video characteristics.
      --scene-height <integer>   Image height
          You can enforce the image height. By default (-1) VLC will adapt to
          the video characteristics.
      --scene-prefix <string>    Filename prefix
          Prefix of the output images filenames. Output filenames will have the
          "prefixNUMBER.format" form if replace is not true.
      --scene-path <string>      Directory path prefix
          Directory path where images files should be saved. If not set, then
          images will be automatically saved in users homedir.
      --scene-replace, --no-scene-replace 
                                 Always write to the same file
                                 (default disabled)
          Always write to the same file instead of creating one file per image.
          In this case, the number is not appended to the filename.
      --scene-ratio <integer [1 .. 2147483647]> 
                                 Recording ratio
          Ratio of images to record. 3 means that one image out of three is
          recorded.

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