On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 23:10:47 +1100, John wrote: > On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 17:07, Miark wrote: > > If I pause video using mplayer and take a screenshot, > > the video still is replaced with solid blue. Is there > > a way around this? > > That's because the default X video driver XV uses something > called screen overlay which you cn't catch in a screenshot, > but I won't go into details here (too many red wines :-). > > You need to use a player like Kaffeine which has a screenshot > function (in Kaffeine either File/Save-As or just ctrl-s). > Alternatively, in Mplayer Preferences, under Video, change the > driver from xv to x11 or xvidix and try again, the video > quality may be worse though.
Kaffeine did the trick--thanks! Miark
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