[NTLUG:Discuss] Screen Shots

[Kevin Brannen]

Chris Cox wrote:

> David Ross wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday 11 January 2005 05:39 am, Steve Baker wrote:
>>
>>> David Ross wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have a problem when taking a screen shot.If i have a movie on the
>>>> screen (Totem/Ogle/Mplayer) or TV (TVTime/XawTV) the screen shot 
>>>> ends up
>>>> being a blue box where the video should be as if there was no signal.
>>>> Any suggestions?
>>>
>>>
>>> I've also noticed that you can't get a screenshot from these programs,
>>> presumably because they talk to the graphics hardware at a very low 
>>> level.
>>>
>> Maybe an example is in order
>> Here's what i want
>> http://ntlug.org/screenshots/svcd-ut2004.gif shows xine playing a movie
>> Here's how mine comes out...sometimes black sometimes blue but no pic
>> http://24.32.5.119/tvtest.jpg
>
>
> mplayer -vo x11 <blah-blah-blah>
> xine -V xshm <blah-blah-blah>
> (don't remember ogle's option line)


With ogle, try hitting the "i" key, or the "I" key, depending on whether 
you want the overlay plane or not.  Or thus says the man page for 
oglerc; though I must admit it doesn't work for me.  But then again, 
when I start ogle, I get:

WARNING[dvd_gui]: add_keybinding(): No such action: 'SaveScreenshot'
WARNING[dvd_gui]: add_keybinding(): No such action: 'SaveScreenshotWithSPU'
WARNING[dvd_gui]: add_keybinding(): '=' not a valid keysym

So there's in error in some config file (not my .oglerc as those aren't 
there, probably in the code somewhere).  But I'm sure I tried it and it 
worked somewhere in the past, so I must have picked up a bug in the 
newer version.  Alas, I think ogle has become a dead project, :-( so 
you're probably better off with mplayer.

HTH,
Kevin