Frame grab from DVD?

[Manny]

I'm experiencing the same problem, but with xine. Can the same be done
to capture a screenshot off of xine?


On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 10:35:42 -0600, Anthony Dean <adean75 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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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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