Help with VLC screen shots please

I just started using a free player called VLC it plays everything and I recommend it, question I see that theres a snapshot button but when i use it I get a small shot in the screen that I am viewing and then it goes away . Does antone here no how to use VLC to make screen shots ?? I may have taken some but have no idea where it puts them. Thanks for any help and if u dont have this player I recomened it it played lots of vids that WMP didnt and doesnt need new codecs.

same problem dude , i have only Black screens !
maybe openGL or DirectX etc. i use Nero vision express for moviescreens.

some help please so u can see screen shots from the next 30 vids I will post

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hey mistermandingo-- I've used VLC for some time and have always been quite happy with it, it's a great program. What version are you running, though? I can't find any screen capture function in mine. What I've been doing which is rather time-consuming is using the advanced options under "Video" to set VLC to use "Windows GDI Video Output" instead of DirectX, then using Ctrl+PrtScr to put a screenshot of the current window into clipboard, then pasting into Windows Paint and cropping the image there. If that sounds complicated to you, that's because it is. They may have added a screenshot feature in a newer version of VLC but mine (0.8.1) doesn't have it. Can you post a picture of this snapshot button you talked about? Thanks, hopefully we can get to the bottom of this.

version 08.2 and not really a button but if ya go under video when its playing a list comes down and snapshot is one of the options, thanks for the reply, and any help guess I should just go to there site eh??

Ok I got it.

How to make screen caps with VLC player.


Just go to vid u want , play it, U can pause the part U want to

capture but U dont have to, I recomend pause for a better quality cap.

The easiest way is to right click in center of vid and U get a menu select snapshot, thats it.

Or ctrl-alt-s.

Or go to menu find video and select snapshot from drop down list.

they're then saved in your "My Pictures" or "My Images" directory. To change where there saved go to settings then from the drop down list prefrennces

then video then pick folder to save them in by using the browse button . I suggest that U make a new folder just to put screen shots in for easy refrence when posting. saved pics (default is png, alternate is jpg) select jpg.


This info has been tested by me on version VLC 0.8.2., to see what version you have open player hit help from drop down list open abot VLC player. Now lets see some screen shots people.

If u want this player its free here. Its the best I have found so far, and It plays all vid files with no codecs needed it plays all TF vids just fine also.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

This link is for the help fourm.

http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=11125

Peace all happy posting

Hey MM -

You taught me how to make screen shots using VLC in my Little Summer post in the Video topic.

SO I figured that out, thanks, but I have a problem with the VLC player that I was wondering if you had advice on:

When I hit the "PAUSE" button to make my vidcap, the player waits like 4-5 seconds before it freezes the shot. So I'll hit pause when some chick is smiling and looking into the camera, but by the time VLC actually freezes, she's frowning with her eyes closed. So frustrating! Any tips?

Yes vectra , I actually have the same problem , so I tryd just doing this

right click in center of vid and U get a menu select snapshot, thats it.

U may have to take a couple to get a good one but it works and just pretend your a photographer LOL.