Frame grab from DVD?

[Anthony Dean]

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Klaasjan Brand wrote:
>>After installing/compiling mplayer, I've managed to get playing DVDs to
>>work on my machine.
>>
>>My question is, how would I make a screen grab of a scene from the DVD?
>>I tried the "take screenshot" feature under the "Actions" menu, but just
>>got a blue screen where the DVD image should've been.
> 
> 
> Mplayer is using the hardware video overlay feature of your video
> card, which bypasses the framebuffer. Try using mplayer with the "-vo
> x11" flag (or another video out driver, check "-vo help").
> With the x11 driver, scaling has to be done in software, so that will
> be a lot slower, but you can make screenshots this way.
> 
> Klaasjan
> 

That seems to have worked (I used the GUI frontend gmplayer to change
the driver to the setting "X11 (XImage/Shm)"), but it displays letterbox
bars on the playback/image, despite the DVD in question being a
conventional 4:3, "fullscreen" TV program (and making the picture
slightly "off"/"squished" looking from my perspective), where it didn't
do that under the old setting. Any suggestions on fixing that (selecting
the "4:3 ratio" setting didn't do anything)?

Anthony
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