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Re: screenshot of mplayer-movie?



On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 07:20:22PM +0000, Matthias Leopold wrote:
> hi
> 
> although this isn't debian-specific, i hope someone can help me (i AM using 
> debian). how can i make screenshots of playing videos(maybe fullscreen)? 
> i've tried to do this using the import program from ImageMagick, but it 
> obviously doesn't work. somewhere i read that i should disable the xvideo 
> extension to make screenshots of movies, but i don't know how to do this. 
> im using the commercial nvidia driver and the mplayer debs from 
> http://marillat.free.fr/ on a (mostly) testing system. everything works 
> fine, except i can't make screenshots to brag with...

'mplayer -vo x11 file.blah' should let you take screenshots, but you
should read more about the '-vo' option in the manpage; mplayer will
dump directly to .png files, which you can convert into any format you
like.

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