RenderHeads
[Enhancement] Add support for capturing images to Photo Library
AVPro Movie Capture Version
5.3.4-trial
Which platform is your question for?
iOS
Your question
I'm attempting to take a screen capture on iOS and upload the final image to the Photo Library. To do this I call a GameObject with the CaptureFromScreen component attached set to automatically stop recoriding after 1 frame. Its output target is a PNG image sequence set to be stored in the Photo Library. When I try to take the screen capture I get the following error in XCode
(MovieCapture.m:416) Cannot create recorder, unsupported path: avpmc-photolibrary:///Captures/Image_2025-07-17_20-41-25_2048x2732/frame-%2502d.png
I believe I have all the correct permissions setup since just before this screen capture I also record a short 5 second video using a different CaptureFromScreen.
[AVProMovieCapture] Start File Capture: 2048x2732 @ 30.00fps [RGBA32] vcodec:'H264' to file: 'avpmc-photolibrary:///Captures/MovieCapture_2025-07-17_20-41-16_2048x2732.mp4'
The video works fine but the screen shot does not. I did however notice that the saved videos do not automatically upload to iCloud even if they are in the photo library but I don't think this is related (although if you know how to fix it I would appreciate that to).
Photo library is not supported for images at the moment, but its something that we can look into adding.
Hey Chris, long time no see, thank you for the response. Is there a way I can temporarily work around this restriction? I'd like to use this plugin for both videos and images for an installation in August. I can probably find another plugin for just the images of I have too but I was really hoping to consolidate both features to a single plugin.
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On Fri, Jul 18, 2025, 02:34 Chris-RH @.***> wrote:
Chris-RH left a comment (RenderHeads/UnityPlugin-AVProMovieCapture#472) https://github.com/RenderHeads/UnityPlugin-AVProMovieCapture/issues/472#issuecomment-3084888503
Photo library is not supported for images https://renderheads.com/content/docs/AVProMovieCapture/articles/usage-photo-library.html at the moment, but its something that we can look into adding.
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Sadly that is extremely unlikely, as the majority of the team are on holiday from the middle of next week, for most of August.