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authorLena <lena@nihil.gay>2023-12-17 18:29:33 +0100
committerStefano Sabatini <stefasab@gmail.com>2023-12-17 19:14:08 +0100
commitd7ac7101ee8c70a253f7caf400d9ae3870880d7f (patch)
tree87f572c4fc9b723b4a3db973cea46b02670b7e9e
parent419145c11bb3310539eb975751291bcf023e9170 (diff)
downloadffmpeg-d7ac7101ee8c70a253f7caf400d9ae3870880d7f.tar.gz
gdigrab: allow capturing a window by its handle
x11grab can capture windows by their ID, but gdigrab can only capture windows by their names, internally calling FindWindowW to lookup its handle. This patch simply allows the user to specify a window handle directly. Signed-off-by: Lena <lena@nihil.gay>
-rw-r--r--Changelog1
-rw-r--r--doc/indevs.texi8
-rw-r--r--libavdevice/gdigrab.c15
3 files changed, 21 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Changelog b/Changelog
index 67ef92eb02..a1b09027bb 100644
--- a/Changelog
+++ b/Changelog
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ version <next>:
- aap filter
- demuxing, decoding, filtering, encoding, and muxing in the
ffmpeg CLI now all run in parallel
+- enable gdigrab device to grab a window using the hwnd=HANDLER syntax
version 6.1:
- libaribcaption decoder
diff --git a/doc/indevs.texi b/doc/indevs.texi
index 863536a34d..a0c684f545 100644
--- a/doc/indevs.texi
+++ b/doc/indevs.texi
@@ -722,7 +722,7 @@ Win32 GDI-based screen capture device.
This device allows you to capture a region of the display on Windows.
-There are two options for the input filename:
+Amongst options for the imput filenames are such elements as:
@example
desktop
@end example
@@ -730,9 +730,13 @@ or
@example
title=@var{window_title}
@end example
+or
+@example
+hwnd=@var{window_hwnd}
+@end example
The first option will capture the entire desktop, or a fixed region of the
-desktop. The second option will instead capture the contents of a single
+desktop. The second and third options will instead capture the contents of a single
window, regardless of its position on the screen.
For example, to grab the entire desktop using @command{ffmpeg}:
diff --git a/libavdevice/gdigrab.c b/libavdevice/gdigrab.c
index c069232472..41ef370f2b 100644
--- a/libavdevice/gdigrab.c
+++ b/libavdevice/gdigrab.c
@@ -273,9 +273,22 @@ gdigrab_read_header(AVFormatContext *s1)
}
} else if (!strcmp(filename, "desktop")) {
hwnd = NULL;
+ } else if (!strncmp(filename, "hwnd=", 5)) {
+ name = filename + 5;
+ char *p;
+
+ hwnd = strtol(name, &p, 0);
+
+ if (p == NULL || p == name || p[0] == '\0')
+ {
+ av_log(s1, AV_LOG_ERROR,
+ "Invalid window handle '%s', must be a valid integer.\n", name);
+ ret = AVERROR(EINVAL);
+ goto error;
+ }
} else {
av_log(s1, AV_LOG_ERROR,
- "Please use \"desktop\" or \"title=<windowname>\" to specify your target.\n");
+ "Please use \"desktop\", \"title=<windowname>\" or \"hwnd=<hwnd>\" to specify your target.\n");
ret = AVERROR(EIO);
goto error;
}