[MPlayer-users] cannot take screenshot

[Corey Hickey]

How Wong wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi
> 
> Mplayer 0.90
> 
> unable to take screenshot of any video. screenshot just turned out just 
> blue screen.
> 

That's probably because you're using video output that uses hardware
overlay, such as -vo xv. In such a case, the software doesn't know
what's being overlayed, and so can't take a screenshot. Use -vo x11
if you want to - that's all in software (which is why it's slow for
most purposes).

-Corey