adjust snapshot dimesions

[ineedhelp09]

is there a way to adjust the snapshot demisions? they come in as fixed size.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Yes, in preferences, advanced.

[ineedhelp09]

i tried it, didn't work. i played around with the snapshot height/width, didn't see any difference in snapshot size. didn't seem to matter whether it was -3 or 3.

i read elsewhere that it can't be done. if it can be done, can you give specific directions?

[clemenzina]

I have this problem as well, as does an online friend - we record an mms stream and take snapshots during recording. I have tried altering the video width/height and window width/height but haven't got a satisfactory result - indeed, when I selected (I think) +3 instead of -1 the snapshot came out the size of a dot

These are my present settings. Video width/height and window width/height have been reset to defaults.




At one stage I accidentally altered video x and y coordinates and am not sure what the defaults were, I'd be grateful if someone could confirm they're OK - I don't want to "reset preferences" because presumably I'd lose my other settings which are fine as they now are.

I'd be very grateful for precise instructions on how to increase the size of VLC snapshots.

clemenzina

[clemenzina]

I found this reply from a member over 18 months ago, but unfortunately they don't say where they "entered" their resolution:

Well I figured it out on my own, it had thrown me off that the initial values were -1 for the width and height, so I was assuming the dimensions were going by some sort of ratio. I decided to enter what should be the resolution/pixel values for my monitor (mine is 1280x800) and now I have decent sized snapshots. Also choosing png instead of jpg does give a noticeably sharper snapshot.

[ineedhelp09]

maybe if enough users raise this issue, they put in this feature that works in the next update hopefully.

[clemenzina]

I count as at least 10 users I'm enquiring on behalf of loads of us who record the same wildlife cam.

They say that the snapshot cannot be any bigger than source, however video playback of the same source is bigger - so I don't understand (There's a lot I don't understand, admittedly )

[razzell2]

Using the screenshot above, and using the quote from clemenzia's post:
("Well I figured it out on my own, it had thrown me off that the initial values were -1 for the width and height, so I was assuming the dimensions were going by some sort of ratio. I decided to enter what should be the resolution/pixel values for my monitor (mine is 1280x800) and now I have decent sized snapshots"),

This is what I did to get my screen snapshots to a larger size and I assume this is what the commentor did as well...

In tools/preferences/advanced/video/snapshot
video snapshot width
video snapshot height

video width was -1, changed to 1440
video height was -1, changed to 900

This is the resolution size of my monitor. I would imagine you could change this to any resolution you desire... 800x600, 1200x800, etc.

In any case, after saving these settings I now have large snapshots. I also changed the format to jpg, but it is correct that the default format, png, is a sharper, clearer image.

Hope this helps anyone who wants to change their VLC snapshots to a decent size image instead of the small, default size.

Peace.
razz

[Kops]

Using the quote from clemenzia's post:
("Well I figured it out on my own, it had thrown me off that the initial values were -1 for the width and height, so I was assuming the dimensions were going by some sort of ratio. I decided to enter what should be the resolution/pixel values for my monitor (mine is 1280x800) and now I have decent sized snapshots"),
This is what I did to get a bigger snapshot:
Using my VIDEO frame width & frame height which is 720 x 480 (NOT the resolution/pixel values of my computer monitor) I doubled it to 1440 x 960. Then in VLC I changed the values of the video snapshot width & video snapshot height to 1440 & 960 respectively and it doubled the size of my snapshot. If you want it 3 times bigger, multiply 720 & 480 by 3, make changes accordingly in VLC and this should further increase the size your snapshot. Hope this will help everyone looking for a solution to this problem.
Cheers!