[MPlayer-users] Two questions

[Oliver Seitz]

On 01.08.2010 11:23, Ronak wrote:
> I'm sorry for the vagueness of the questions, but I am new to this stuff and
> it just didn't strike me to put in more detail.
>
>   I use Debian Linux, and I am a user without administrative privileges on my
> college server.
>
>   1) While playing a video clip on mplayer, how do I save a part of the clip
> like you can on VLC by pressing Shift+R? Or *is* there any way to do this?
>
>    

MPlayer does not save videos, it just plays them. You can, however, make 
MPlayer write an EDL file that MEncoder can later use to copy the 
desired parts to a new video file.

> 2) Most of the videos I watch on mplayer, I watch from the home folders of
> other users, so I don't have permissions there, but I need screenshots. Is
> there any way I can tell mplayer to save all screenshots in a particular
> folder rather than in the video's original folder?
>    
Yes, it was already answered:

cd particular\ folder
mplayer -vf screenshot /home/not_mine/some_video.avi

Greets,
Kiste