I'm experiencing the same problem, but with xine. Can the same be done to capture a screenshot off of xine? On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 10:35:42 -0600, Anthony Dean <adean75@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > -----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----- > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
