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date: 2011-05-22 08:57:00+00:00
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title: KDE VLC Snapper
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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.

[![](http://www.dennogumi.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/vlcsnapper_resized-287x300.png)](http://www.dennogumi.org/2011/04/taking-video-snapshots-quickly-kde-vlc-snapper/vlcsnapper_resized-png)





## 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](http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/KDE+VLC+Snapper?content=141977) or access the the Git repository on [GitHub](https://github.com/cswegger/kde-vlc-snapper):


    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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