Find or Change Screenshot Folder or Location on VLC. How to change Snapshot or Screenshot folder or Location in VLC Media Player
VLC (VideoLAN Client) Media Player can be used to capture snapshot or screenshot while watching a video or a movie either using the advanced controls panel, right clicking on VLC media player interfaces while video is playing or pause and selecting take snapshot or using keyboard shortcut (which is the easiest), you can check my tutorial on How to capture screenshot, screenshot or frame using the VLC Media Player.
Today, we will be learning how to change the snapshot or screenshot folder from the default which is the Picture folder in Windows (C:/Users/Pictures) to a folder of your choice where your screenshot or snapshot will be automatically kept and saved.
Please follow the following steps to be able to change the default screenshot or snapshot folder to one of your choice.
1. Launch the VLC Media player
2. Click on Tools on the menu bar, and click on Preferences OR press Ctrl + P on your keyboard to go to VLC media player preferences.
3. The VLC Media player preferences window will open, the simple preferences.
4. On the top menu, interface is selected by default (as it is the first choice), Click on Video.
5. Check down, you will see Video snapshots, you will see directory (Where Red box is located in the image).
6. On the directory, if you want to change the default folder, click on Browse
7. The Browse folder window will open, go to the folder you want save VLC video snapshot and click on Select Folder.
8. Click on save below and thus the video snapshot folder has been changed.
Hope, with this you have been able to change the default snapshot or screenshot folder in the VLC Media Player to a folder of your choice.
Please comment below for any issues faced while going through this process.
smithcferg says
On windows, try:
1. Tools->Preferences
2. [If it opens to Advanced preferences, make sure “only show current” isn’t checked]
3 Click “Video”
4. Look for “Snapshot” or “Video Snapshots”
5. Just below, look for the field “Video snapshot directory (or filename)” or “Directory”
6. In Windows, just put “.” (without quotes) in this field.
This will allow you to save to the directory where the video has been opened from. This works for VLC 3.0.18/Win10 for sure.
What I did is put “$N-vlcsnap” in “Video snapshot file prefix” or “Prefix” right below, and Click check box for “Use sequential numbers…” or “Sequential Numbering” This names the screenshot as -vlcsnap#####.jpg in the directory that is playing from, and keeps the snapshots in close proximity to the video.
*I suggest you only have one VLC instance open (rather than trying to save snapshots from one video when another VLC instance is open in another directory. Also, may not work right saving from videos being played from playlist.
** if you try putting “.\vlcsnaps” in directory, it will not create a new subdirectory, but will save to the directory of the playing video using the filename “vlcsnaps” without extension. And so there will only be one screenshot in that directory, then last one saved. if you try forcing a directory creation by putting “.\vlcsnaps\” into the “directory” setting, it doesn’t seem to save the screenshot at all.
Timothy says
Thanks
Robert Peploe says
Where is the default location for screenshots on Android?
Anon says
Use . as directory
Subhajit Saha says
Thanks
Quantillion says
Hi,
How do I configure VLC to save snapshots in the same folder as the video?
Thx.
Tim says
It saves by default to the Pictures folder in Windows. You can only set a default location where your snapshots are to be saved.
MartinB says
See https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=130762
Put $path.png in the directory location for the snaps in preferences.
Change .png if you have selected a different format.
It does not auto-increment with $N as the page suggests so it only saves your last snapshot in the same folder as the video file. Maybe that’s all you need.
smitty says
That method does not work. After save, OR reset the snapshots still go to pictures folder every time despite all the changes saved or reset.
smithcferg says
My comment above ( smithcferg says
March 25, 2023 at 11:16 pm) was meant to go here.
Timothy says
Thanks