-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Klaasjan Brand wrote: >>After installing/compiling mplayer, I've managed to get playing DVDs to >>work on my machine. >> >>My question is, how would I make a screen grab of a scene from the DVD? >>I tried the "take screenshot" feature under the "Actions" menu, but just >>got a blue screen where the DVD image should've been. > > > Mplayer is using the hardware video overlay feature of your video > card, which bypasses the framebuffer. Try using mplayer with the "-vo > x11" flag (or another video out driver, check "-vo help"). > With the x11 driver, scaling has to be done in software, so that will > be a lot slower, but you can make screenshots this way. > > Klaasjan > That seems to have worked (I used the GUI frontend gmplayer to change the driver to the setting "X11 (XImage/Shm)"), but it displays letterbox bars on the playback/image, despite the DVD in question being a conventional 4:3, "fullscreen" TV program (and making the picture slightly "off"/"squished" looking from my perspective), where it didn't do that under the old setting. Any suggestions on fixing that (selecting the "4:3 ratio" setting didn't do anything)? Anthony - -- My PGP public key: http://www.applelinks.net/adean/PGPkey.html My weblog: http://adean.blogspot.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCRD3emNGl98MlFdMRApIOAJ94Bh7zRZIUXwxIQWDKj3HSjp+ZhgCeO4vA Np5LTF9QuLXEnMZzmYqRAI8= =NeOr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
