Screen shots

[hi there]

I've been trying to make screen shots with the new VLC by putting --nooverlay in the command line as the online documentation says, but I can't seem to get it right. Do I need to configure the program differently? What do I need to do to capture the screen?

[hi there]

I've been trying a lot of things to get the screen dump option to work, and it actually did for a couple of files. Automatic screen dumps in predefined folders and they were awesome! But then I tried a 16:9 file and set the recording ratio to 1 instead of 3, after which the VLC Player gave an error message and I had to reset the preferences and reinstall. Now it's back to the start again: I can't seem to get the screen shots right.

When I reset all preferences and only put --nooverlay in the commandline before the video file location, I get error messages like this:

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main error: no suitable access module for `--nooverlay' main warning: output date isn't PTS date, requesting resampling (41476) main warning: audio drift is too big (123174), dropping buffer main debug: control type=1 main warning: timing screwed, stopping resampling main warning: buffer is 83078 late, triggering upsampling main warning: output date isn't PTS date, requesting resampling (40172)

When I set a folder to save the screen dumps in, set video output to images & no video I got this error message:

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main error: no suitable access module for `--nooverlay' main warning: output date isn't PTS date, requesting resampling (40255)

I also tried this with other files and they gave even more error messages.

Anyone, please help me out and tell me how I need to configure the program to make screen dumps especially the automatic screen dumps per file every ... frames were great and I'd also love to be able to take one of more screen shots on my own I'm running the newest VLC version on a PIII with Windows 2000; my pc has about 9.7 GB free disk space and 512 MB memory.

PS. I think it's kind of funny that while playing or pausing a video in VLC, the Windows background / menu / other programs running at the same change colors at the same time the videos do. Looks cool but it's not always possible to read texts while putting the video to a halt for a short while.

[hi there]

Sorry if I put this message in the wrong forum... , but please, anyone, help me out here

[philipw]

Hi,

isn't it possible to just configure one button to make snapshots ?
I have "p" as "print" and it works greatly

Or didn't I get the point ?

VLC puts the created .png files after you've pressed "p" in %appdata%\VLC by default. Just type "%appdata%\VLC" in "Start, Run" to access this folder.
You can also change this folder where snapshots are to be put.

have fun


edit: ok, next time I should have a look at the date. Now everything makes sense, probably this option of making snapshots didn't exist yet.

phil