[vlc] vlc Digest, Vol 46, Issue 10

[PesoMemo]

On 3/11/2011 2:21 AM, vlc-request at videolan.org wrote:
> Message: 4

I'm a fellow user and thought I'd point out that I had no problem configuring
snapshot on XP.  One thing I have noticed though is when you save your
preferences, they don't take effect until you close and reopen VLC, so I
would make the necessary changes to preferences, save them, close VLC and
then restart it - you should then have the proper snapshot config you wanted.

HTH, Bill

> Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:18:15 +0100
> From: Henk van Peer<henkvanpeer at gmail.com>
> To:vlc at videolan.org, hvpopslag<hvpopslag at gmail.com>
> Subject: [vlc] Bug report VLCPlayer v1.1.4 ; Snapshot ; preferences
> 	save/use (directory, filetype, prefix FName); NoFunctionality of
> 	Prefences/Video/Shapshot... (app sticks to defaults)
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> *Bug report VLCPlayer v1.1.4 ; Snapshot ;*
> preferences save/use (directory, filetype, prefix FName);
> NoFunctionality of Prefences/Video/Shapshot...
> (app sticks to defaults)
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>
> To whom it may concern,
>
> This is my report on experience using VLCMediaplayer v 1.1.4 (more info: see
> attachment; AboutDialog), more precisely: the snapshot feature that is built
> in, and can be activated using the dropdownmenu Video.
> The second section, last entry of this menu says "Snapshot"; it's purpose is
> to generate a seperate imagefile from the active/current videowindow. In
> other words: a specific frame of the playing movie is written to an
> imagefile. I.other other words: The contents of the active videowindow are
> written to imagefile.
>
> In "options" (MenuItem Exra, at bottom; CONTROL+P for Preferences", the 3d
> tab says Video, and there the settings for Snapshot can be customised. Or so
> it seems.
>
> The directory/folder (Default: MyDta\Pictures?), filenameprefix (default:
> VLC_?)) and fileTYPE (PiNG or JPeG) can be set. BUG: These settings do not
> take effect on my system;
> When I switch to another tab in Preferences, and then go back to the
> VideoTab, my own values are there, but when I activate shapshot, changes are
> not carried thr Bug report VLCPlayer v1.1.4 ; Snapshot ; preferences
> save/use (directory, filetype, prefix FName); NoFunctionality of
> Prefences/Video/Shapshot... (app sticks to defaults)ough. After closing the
> Preferences dialog and re-opening it, my settings/data in the Video\Snapshot
> part are gone... And of course, no effect... SO I CANNOT DO ANY PREFERENCES
> ON THE SNAPSHOT MODULE; I have to make do with the default values.
>
> I use an Eee PC (Atom N270) 1201N (Asus), running Win7Ultimate english
> version. The computer itself is french... (AZERTY KBD).
>
> I am usually very low on money (I boutht the netbook 2nd hand for approx $
> 170) so I did not licence my VLCMediaplayer. I am a huge fan however. In
> fact, I started using VLC because it had/has a snapshot feature (built in;
> as PrtScr does usually not work...). Many more advangages I discovered later
> on. The far lesser need to install seperate codecs in order to get a certain
> file being played (at all; Windows MediaPlayer tries but often does not
> succeed in downloading the correct codec..., and VLCPlayer plays the file
> without the need for looking on ANdOr downloading from the internet...).
> Oh... MPlayer Classic also comes with a snapshot feature... Of course, as
> that program's concept is to improve upon the standard MediaPlayer but
> keeping withing the design framework (GUI-wise), given by it's example...
>
> Of course I will keep on telling people how great I thing VLCMediaplayer is,
> and I hope this small beauty error will be corrected, sometime in the
> future.
>
> Thank you for your (reading)time and an application I would not want to do
> without.
>
> drs. H.C. van Peer (Henk)
> aka Numpspa / Numpspa323 / Sardo ~
>
>
> PSs
> 1 This bugreport is restricted to the used OS (WIn7Ultimate) and the version
> of VLC mentioned. I, for example, did not test the portable version
> (VLCPortable*not*  tested (yet)... I am very happy, and kind of proud, that
> there is such a version. The proved indepedence (by the portable
> VLCMediaplayer version) of a lot of WinCrap makes me trust VLCMediaplayer
> ever more. Using portable versions improves the overall reliability of my
> system (as experienced by me) and deminishes it's vulnarability I always
> keep a portable setup at hand, in case the Win(environment) refused to
> cooperate :-)
> 2. IDEA FOR SHAPSHOT: BurstMode; an option that can also be found on digital
> camera's; after activating Snapshot-In-Burstmode, a preset number of
> videoimagefiles is generated, where the source-images are a user-defined
> distance apart. This would capturing the right frame(s) more easy. Second
> nice way to fool around with this feature is that it makes it easy to create
> "slow motion sequences" from existing videomaterial, as well as (even more
> so) "fast motion sequences".
> Well... I have not missed this feature (SnapshotBurtsmode) at all, but that
> is because no other app, to my knowledge, provides me with the
> opportunity...
> Depending on what is wanted, a SnapshotBurstfeature could also be equiped
> with Artficial INtelligence, eg when an X% of movement thresshold is passed,
> so much % of colorchange or change is light/dark is detected, etcetera. VERY
> new would be, I think, videocapture that is made dependent on SOUND....
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