[MPlayer-users] taking screenshot of mplayer video (using xv,x11& sdl)

[Matt Ficken]

As I said, I've already tried xv, sdl and still get the blue screen w/ both. 
X11 does give me the screenshot, but hogs most of my CPU power b/c I don't think its using any of my 
2D hardware acceleration, as xv & sdl do. 
 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Ross Fawcett <claymen at walan.org> 
Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 18:16:14 +0800 
To: mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu 
Subject: Re: [MPlayer-users] taking screenshot of mplayer video (using xv,x11& sdl) 
 
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html] 
> On Sat, 06 Sep 2003 3:55 pm, Matt Ficken wrote: 
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html] 
> > I'm trying to take screenshots of videos playing in mplayer. I've tried 
> > both the xv, sdl & x11 video drivers. The screenshot software I'm using is 
> > graphicsmagick and I've also tried ksnapshot. 
> > 
> > Whenever I'm only playing one video, all that is captured from that one 
> > video is a blue box. 
> > 
> > I'm running XFree86-4.3, linux-2.4 & mplayer-0.90 
>  
> Thats because its using xv which gives you your hardware scaling etc, however  
> to do this the video is displayed as an overlay, hence when you drag it you  
> see the blue back and when you screencap u get the blue. u have to use -vo  
> x11 or -vo sdl (maybe not sure) to cap the video as well. 
>  
> - Ross 
>  
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