ByteScout Screen Capturing SDK – VBScript and VB6 – Capture Video From Silverlight Control In Browser

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ByteScout Screen Capturing SDK – VBScript and VB6 – Capture Video From Silverlight Control In Browser

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How to capture video from silverlight control in browser in VBScript and VB6 and ByteScout Screen Capturing SDK

The tutorial below will demonstrate how to capture video from silverlight control in browser in VBScript and VB6

Every ByteScout tool contains example VBScript and VB6 source codes that you can find here or in the folder with installed ByteScout product. Want to capture video from silverlight control in browser in your VBScript and VB6 app? ByteScout Screen Capturing SDK is designed for it. ByteScout Screen Capturing SDK is the screen video recording SDK helps in quick implementation of screen video recording. WMV, AVI, WebM output options are available with adjustable quality, video size, framerate and video and audio codec. Includes special features like live multiple blacking out of selected areas, recording from web cam as main source and as overlay, optional watermarks for output video.

Fast application programming interfaces of ByteScout Screen Capturing SDK for VBScript and VB6 plus the instruction and the code below will help you quickly learn how to capture video from silverlight control in browser. Just copy and paste the code into your VBScript and VB6 application’s code and follow the instruction. Test VBScript and VB6 sample code examples whether they respond your needs and requirements for the project.

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CaptureGivenWindow-control.vbs

      ' create video capturer activex object
Set capturer = CreateObject("BytescoutScreenCapturing.Capturer")

' set output video file name (WMV), you can also set to AVI 
capturer.OutputFileName = "GivenWindowCaptured-SilverlightControl.avi"

' set capturing type to the caWindow =1 to capture the given window
capturer.CapturingType = 1

MsgBox "This script will record video from Silverlight control in Internet Explorer for 15 seconds. Please run Internet Explorer and open any web-site with silverlight content and click OK"

capturer.SetLogFile "log-control.txt"

' set window class to capture to MicrosoftSilverlight so this will record from silverlight control inside browser
capturer.WindowClassToCapture = "MicrosoftSilverlight"

' uncomment to enable recording of semitransparent or layered windows (Warning: may cause mouse cursor flickering)
' capturer.CaptureTransparentControls = true

' set width of the output video
capturer.OutputWidth = 640
' set height of the output video
capturer.OutputHeight = 480

' uncomment to set another output video compression method, Bytescout Lossless, DivX or MJPEG (if installed)
' you can use lossless video format, Bytescout Lossless Video Codec
' capturer.CurrentVideoCodecName = "Bytescout Lossless"

' run video capturing 
capturer.Run()


' IMPORTANT: if you want to check for some code if need to stop the recording then make sure you are 
' using Thread.Sleep(1) inside the checking loop, so you have the loop like
' Do 
' Thread.Sleep(1) 
' While StopButtonNotClicked

' wait for 15 seconds (15000 msec)
WScript.Sleep(15000)

' stop capturing
capturer.Stop()

' destroy Capturer object so the video will be saved into the disk
Set capturer = Nothing

MsgBox "Done"