[MPlayer-users] speaking of vo... (was How I take a screenshot ??)

[ivanova]

On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 21:09:31 +0300
Jan Knutar <jknutar at nic.fi> wrote:

> On Saturday 21 August 2004 19:51, The Wanderer wrote:
> 
> > As a separate note, the one potential problem which I knew about but
> > forgot to mention in the previous suggestion is that the
> > grab-screenshot-with-separate-program method will not work with some -vo
> > methods, because pausing MPlayer and switching window focus repeatedly
> > will soon result in the video window blanking to blue (or, at least, it
> > does for me).
> 
> Even if it didn't, all you'd see on the screenshot would be the blue anyways,
> atleast with xvidix, xmga, xv, xover and most likely xvmc. Or some other
> colour ;-)

While we are on the subject: What is the difference between the different vo
modes? I got -vo x11 to work with scrot. What makes it different to all the
other modes?