On Friday 22 December 2006 20:11, Paul Smith wrote: > On 12/22/06, Tom Horsley <tomhorsley@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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). > > > > 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 :-). > > Mplayer has got guis: kplayer is one of them. > If anything, that's worse - and it still only shows a blank blue screen if I try to grab a snapshot. Anne
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