[MPlayer-users] cannot take screenshot

[Gábor Lénárt]

On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 12:39:02PM +1000, 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.

This is normal, and it's the expected behaviour because you're using
vo xv or similar. XVideo is an XFree extension allows the access of
hardware overlay "unit" of today's video cards. Because it's hardware,
no software component has got any idea about the content of a window
contains XVideo "image". If you want to processing output by another
software like screenshot, you should use another vo which is software eg
vo x11. But stay tuned: since it's software, it will be much slower than
XVideo.

- Gábor (larta'H)