I suspect this is due to hardware acceleration (gstreamer-vaapi). We try
to avoid buffer copies for the best efficiency, but that also means
getting a screenshot is very difficult. The video image only exists in
GPU memory and requires a lot of effort to read back. It's not
surprising this doesn't quite work yet.

Similarly using Alt+PrtScn may fail to get a screenshot (without an
error message). I think the reason for that is the use of wl_subsurface
is something gnome-shell doesn't quite know how to screenshot yet(?)

** Changed in: totem (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Low

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