Time code and filename prefix in VLC

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I find this material, http://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Play_HowTo/Format_String. I try the time code of the video in my filename prefix like this, "scene-$T-". But the scene filter does not output time code in the file name. Do those format string variables only support 0.9.0 version?

Thanks in advance.

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 01 '14 at 15:15

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Take a look @ the documentation on this page and variables, for me for example

Tools -> Preferences
Video
On the snapshot section I put $N- which is the name of the file, you could actually do whatever you want with following variables

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answered Dec 01 '14 at 15:15

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did not work for me using the latest stable version (2.1.6) of vlc player on ubuntu 14.04 lts. accepts the parameter as constant strings. – talha06 Jul 12 '15 at 22:36
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Actually there is a bug about snapshots that is not working for me either... https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=712935 hope it'll be fixed soon, maybe it has to do with the fact its not working for you – Pipo Jul 14 '15 at 07:36

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 05 '15 at 07:16

It's not clear from your questions whether you refer to taking video snapshots, but that's what I'll assume here.

Looking at the documentation (https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Snapshots/), --snapshot-path and --snapshot-prefix can only be expanded from version 2.2.0. I.e. if you want to insert time and date as part of your snapshot filename, you will have to use VLC version 2.2.0 or greater.

A number of Linux distributions have not upgraded their stock VLC to 2.2.0, including Linux Mint, and, it seems Ubuntu. What you're trying to do works for me on Windows with the latest VLC.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 29 '15 at 16:42

Goto Tools->Preferences or alternatively press Ctrl + P

Then Goto Video -> Video snpashot

Enter in Prefix text box

vlcsnap-%H-%M-%S

Options expansions that can be added are

%Y : year
%m : month
%d : day
%H : hour
%M : minute
%S : second

For a list of other common formatted string option, Goto

https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Play_HowTo/Format_String

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 20 '18 at 14:29

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$N-%H-%M-%S-

it works for me while using build 3.0.3

answered Jul 20 '18 at 14:29

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 02 '11 at 08:45

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I think there is a bug over this module, so I just write a separate function to extract the time info.

answered Mar 02 '11 at 08:45

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Time code and filename prefix in VLC

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