KDE VLC Snapper

KDE VLC Snapper is a small PyKDE4 based program to perform automated screencapping of DVD chapters or movie files. It is based on the VLC Python bindings.

I created this program to quickly get a number of screenshots from a movie stream so I could post them to my blog.

Requirements

  • Python (2.6 and 2.7 should work reliably)

  • distribute

  • PyKDE4

  • VLC 1.1.x

  • dvdread and lsdvd (used for DVD chapter screencapping)

  • numpy (optional)

Download

The currently available version is 0.1.

You can download the latest source from KDE-apps.org or access the the Git repository on GitHub:

git clone git://github.com/cswegger/kde-vlc-snapper.git

Installation

Untar the archive, and run:

python setup.py install

as root. Supply the –prefix option if you want to install to a specific prefix (default /usr/local).

Usage

Simply select your media file or DVD chapter, set the number of required screencaps and the destination directory and click on Capture.

Known issues

  • Some media files make the program crash (hard to debug)

License

This program is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2, or at your option, any later version.

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