Question / Help How can I record just 1 single frame from stream?

[Mr.P]

It´s possible to record just 1 single frame from stream? (Any format, but if possible, image)!
If yes, how to!

Thanks in advance.

 

[IKillBeds]

What do you mean?

 

[Mr.P]

The perfect option for me is not possible, (print screen from the streaming window), so I need to record a single frame from my stream to make a workaround.

I am streaming 360º videos and I need take a single frame / photo to show as spherical image in a VR platform. To do that, I need to grab a single frame from my stream window. All the rest to inject metadata I know what to do.

Do you know how I can record a single frame in OBS?
I can do this with any streaming software but not in OBS.

Thanks.

 

[Boildown]

Have you tried FRAPS?

 

[Mr.P]

Thank you Boildown, I know Fraps, I have use fraps many years on my "EVE Online" nights :), but I am not sure if it will work on this, sure, I can try, but I´am trying to keep it simple just to take a picture.

And what about output / recording options! There must be an option to record just 1 frame in x seconds! Or not!

I am new to OBS, probably I am missing something.

 

[Mr.P]

Fraps don´t work. It´s not possible to select the stream window with fraps. I can only select all OBS window, not just the stream live screen. :(

I don´t understand why there is not just an option on menu saying "save image". Just keep it simple.

 

[Boildown]

Are you recording the file to disk at all? If so you can use any of many video players to grab one frame out of the movie file you save.

 

[Mr.P]

Boildown, thanks for lose some of your time trying to help me.

I begin using OBS studio just because I can stream a 360º video + cromakey directly. (Fast and easy).

When I begin my tests last week, OBS looks the perfect dreamy solution for my presentations, but without this detail that I only knew about today, (OBS cannot take screenshots), all change to me :(

All our presentations are done "on the move", we don´t have much time when we arrive for a conference. All minutes are important.

In this moment I cannot take a single frame from my screen to share and promote my show before it begins without doing all the process I use to do without OBS.

This little detail breaks all the concept that was already done on OBS to make streams easy and fast.

I hope developments can bring this options soon.

 

[Boildown]

I'd try making a feature request to the OBS developers. There's a good chance they'll suggest another way to go about it that I'm not aware of. And maybe they'll implement it if not.

 

[Gerard Braad]

> to make streams easy and fast.

And that is exactly what OBS is good at