Question

I am doing an android application where I want to show a screenshot of a video stream I am not receiving in order for the user to decide if he is going to switch or not to that stream.

I am using VLC to stream the videos and VLC remote control interface to control it via telnet and command it to take *snapshot*s but I can’t do a snapshot of a video I am not watching,

is there a way around this?

Answer 1

I found a way to do it but i have to be receiving the stream as ee said, thanks 🙂

cvlc $CHANNEL_URL --rate=1 --video-filter=scene --vout=dummy --aout=dummy --scene-format=$FORMAT --scene-ratio=24 --scene-prefix=$PREFIX --scene-path=$SNAPSHOT_PATH --scene-width=$WIDTH --scene-replace vlc://quit &