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November 14, 2016 08:54
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var screenshotVideo = (src, time) => { | |
// Create a video element with source and seek to time | |
var video = document.createElement('video'); | |
video.src = src; | |
video.crossOrigin = "Anonymous"; | |
video.currentTime = time; | |
video.play().then(() => { | |
// Pause the video at time | |
video.pause(); | |
// Create canvas and draw current frame to it | |
var canvas = document.createElement('canvas'); | |
canvas.width = 840; | |
canvas.height = 360; | |
var ctx = canvas.getContext('2d'); | |
ctx.drawImage(video, 0, 0, canvas.width, canvas.height); | |
// Ascii to binary conversion of canvas image | |
var image = canvas.toDataURL('image/jpeg'); | |
var data = atob(image.substring("data:image/jpeg;base64,".length)); | |
var asArray = new Uint8Array(data.length); | |
for (var i = 0, len = data.length; i < len; ++i) { | |
asArray[i] = data.charCodeAt(i); | |
} | |
// Create a blob from binary array | |
var f = new Blob([asArray.buffer], {type:'application/octet-stream'}); | |
var a = document.createElement('a'); | |
window.URL = window.URL || window.webkitURL; | |
a.href = window.URL.createObjectURL(f); | |
a.download = 'screenshot.png'; | |
document.body.appendChild(a); | |
a.click(); | |
// Remove the temporary link | |
document.body.removeChild(document.body.lastElementChild); | |
}); | |
} | |
screenshotVideo('https://cdn.cs50.net/2016/fall/lectures/0/week0-b-360p.mp4', 2000); |
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Can be ran in the developer console.. video source is required to be on the same domain as the script is ran