[MPlayer-users] frame capture

[Stribik András]

On Thursday 31 May 2007 01.56.56 Jack Smith wrote:
> Is there any clever way to capture frames from things I watch?  AVIs and
> OGMs in particular.  I'd like to put my favorites up as backgrounds.
> Pointing me at where I can learn it works too.  I run on Linux, Fedora 6.
> Thanks,
> Jack

Start mplayer with -vf screenshot, and press 's' when you want to capture a 
frame. You can move frame-by-frame using the '.' key. Your screenshots will 
be saved as shotXXXX.png.