[vlc-devel] snapshot issues

[Olivier Aubert]

Hi

I am facing issues with snapshot capture in latest vlc trunk. I first
wanted to check that the Mediacontrol snapshot feature (get a snapshot
as a memory zone without writing a file) was working correctly, but it
fails with the following message :

In [6]:s=mc.snapshot(0)
[00000446] main video output debug: uses deprecated vlc_object_get(470)
[00000471] main encoder debug: looking for encoder module: 9 candidates
[00000471] avcodec encoder debug: libavcodec initialized (interface 3355136 )
[00000471] avcodec encoder warning: picture size invalid (4294967295x4294967295)
 (NULL at 0x8f1a600)
[00000471] avcodec encoder error: cannot open encoder
[00000471] main encoder debug: TIMER module_Need() : 19.056 ms - Total 19.056 ms / 1 intvls (Avg 19.056 ms)
[00000471] main encoder error: no suitable encoder module for fourcc `png '.
VLC probably does not support this image format.
[00000446] main video output error: Could not get snapshot

The involved codepath is in src/video_output/vout_intf.h:458. This code
worked before, I woudl say until the ffmpeg/avcodec rework.

I then tried to make a snapshot through the standard VLC path (menu
Video/Snapshot) and it did not work either (but did not produce any
error).

Does anyone have an idea of how to investigate this? Is the png encoder
still available?

Thanks
Olivier