On Friday 22 December 2006 20:04, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 19:40:40 +0000 > > Anne Wilson <cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I guess I'll have to fix xine tomorrow - but is mplayer really so lame? > > That sounds like a symptom of mplayer using one of the video modes > that allows it to display directly to the framebuffer, bypassing most > of X. Since the image isn't "really" on the display, ksnapshot can't > see it. Among the 3,247,928 possible command line options to mplayer, > I'm pretty sure one of 'em says "Hey render video in an x11 window", > at which point ksnapshot should be able to see it (but mplayer performance > might not be as good). > Weird, but it has to be something like that. > P.S. I find the interface to mplayer to be totally insane, but mplayer > itself seems to be the only linux tool that plays every video I've ever > thrown at it, so I wouldn't call it lame, just horribly confusing :-). It plays the video, all right, but it's useless for the checks I want to run against the burning. Anne
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