Embeded Media Player for episode screen capture.

dbareis · Senior Member Posts: 177 Join date: 2008-12-08

billyad2000 wrote:

I am in the process of adding screenshot scraping and screen capture.

It is the screen capture that I am looking at changing.

At the moment MC uses ffmpeg via an automatic commandline function to return a screenshot xx no of seconds into an episode.

I have been looking at the possibility of adding an embedded media player so that a person can browse to a suitable frame and capture it directly. Apparently the MS media Player component won't work because of the overlay, but there is a number of pricey activex controls that can do this.

I was wondering if anyone knows of a free control that could achieve this, or even a way to get around the MS media player overlay limitation.

I don't know the answer but I'd be happy if 'x' random shots were taken whith the possibility of a "reshuffle" button to try another 'x', I don't particularly want to go to the hassle of selecting a shot.

billyad2000 · Admin Posts: 889 Join date: 2008-09-20

I am in the process of adding screenshot scraping and screen capture.

It is the screen capture that I am looking at changing.

At the moment MC uses ffmpeg via an automatic commandline function to return a screenshot xx no of seconds into an episode.

I have been looking at the possibility of adding an embedded media player so that a person can browse to a suitable frame and capture it directly. Apparently the MS media Player component won't work because of the overlay, but there is a number of pricey activex controls that can do this.

I was wondering if anyone knows of a free control that could achieve this, or even a way to get around the MS media player overlay limitation.

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