Screen Capping with VLC Player

[Spider-Man Luvr28]

As the title says, I need some help with learning how to do screen caps using the VLC Media Player. I downloaded the program, inserted my film & it works fine, but when I try to use the snap shot button to screen cap, I keep getting a "Streaming / Transcoding failed:
VLC could not open the encoder." error message. Are there some settings I need to fix or what? Other than loading the film, I only changed the file type to jpg instead of png & where the files would be saved.

I'm using Windows 7 & the VLC's version is 2.01. I already checked the official site, but I didn't really see anything that helped with this sort of error. So, um, can I get some help please?

Edit: Along with the program, should I have downloaded something called the VLC Media Player source code? It says it's a downloadable tarball that includes the full source code for the VLC Media Player.

[znop]

Originally Posted by Spider-Man Luvr28

As the title says, I need some help with learning how to do screen caps using the VLC Media Player. I downloaded the program, inserted my film & it works fine, but when I try to use the snap shot button to screen cap, I keep getting a "Streaming / Transcoding failed:
VLC could not open the encoder." error message. Are there some settings I need to fix or what? Other than loading the film, I only changed the file type to jpg instead of png & where the files would be saved.

I'm using Windows 7 & the VLC's version is 2.01. I already checked the official site, but I didn't really see anything that helped with this sort of error. So, um, can I get some help please?

Edit: Along with the program, should I have downloaded something called the VLC Media Player source code? It says it's a downloadable tarball that includes the full source code for the VLC Media Player.

It's Windows 7

I predominatly use VLC (2.0.1 Twoflower) under Windows XP SP3 to watch my movies and I've never plan to upgrade.

[Raiden]

Originally Posted by znop

It's Windows 7

I predominatly use VLC (2.0.1 Twoflower) under Windows XP SP3 to watch my movies and I've never plan to upgrade.

This would explain why I could never get VLC Player to work on my laptop computer. I hope they will release a Windows 7 version for this program soon.

[lucy9994]

Originally Posted by znop

It's Windows 7

I predominatly use VLC (2.0.1 Twoflower) under Windows XP SP3 to watch my movies and I've never plan to upgrade.

I have exactly the same problem and am using Vista. I only have this problem since upgradeing to latest version of VLC. It was working perfectly fine before upgrading, therefore I suspect this is a bug with new VLC vesion. Anyone know how to get the old version back again because that would be my suggested fix?

[lucy9994]

Originally Posted by Spider-Man Luvr28

As the title says, I need some help with learning how to do screen caps using the VLC Media Player. I downloaded the program, inserted my film & it works fine, but when I try to use the snap shot button to screen cap, I keep getting a "Streaming / Transcoding failed:
VLC could not open the encoder." error message. Are there some settings I need to fix or what? Other than loading the film, I only changed the file type to jpg instead of png & where the files would be saved.

I'm using Windows 7 & the VLC's version is 2.01. I already checked the official site, but I didn't really see anything that helped with this sort of error. So, um, can I get some help please?

Edit: Along with the program, should I have downloaded something called the VLC Media Player source code? It says it's a downloadable tarball that includes the full source code for the VLC Media Player.

I don't have the answer but I was able to capture shots in the old version by following instructions I found on line and then using ctrl Alt S which saved it to a file I'd pre-set up following the instructions. However when I came to use today, I was notified of VLC upgrade and so installed that first. Sadly, that uninstalls original version and now I cant use and get exactly the same message that you're talking about. Don't know whether's a way of getting the old version instead...

[lucy9994]

Originally Posted by lucy9994

I don't have the answer but I was able to capture shots in the old version by following instructions I found on line and then using ctrl Alt S which saved it to a file I'd pre-set up following the instructions. However when I came to use today, I was notified of VLC upgrade and so installed that first. Sadly, that uninstalls original version and now I cant use and get exactly the same message that you're talking about. Don't know whether's a way of getting the old version instead...

PS I don't think its a windows 7 issue as I'm on Vista therefore that leads me to think its a VLC new version issue.

[jphill2012]

all old versions of VLC media player can be found here:

http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/

[Spider-Man Luvr28]

Thanks for the responses guys. Guess I'll dl one of the older versions then.

[Kane52630]

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