On Tue, 5 Feb 2013 01:14:03 +0100 Sebastian Ramacher wrote: > On 2013-02-04 23:34:51, Francesco Poli wrote: > > On Sun, 3 Feb 2013 21:27:06 +0100 Sebastian Ramacher wrote: [...] > > > If the setting is blank, the default output is used. Since you have > > > manually set it to xv in your mplayer config, it's using xv here. > > > > OK, but why did gnome-mplayer fail to pass the correct flags to enable > > screenshots in mplayer? > > > > By looking at the mplayer man page, I seem to understand that the > > correct flag is just: > > > > -vf screenshot > > Well, it's not true for all vos. To the best of my knowledge, the screenshot > video filter and vdpau don't work well together, since mplayer never sees the > final image.
If this is the case, then I begin to understand why the "-vf screenshot" flag is not passed to mplayer unconditionally... > (That information might be outdated, so please correct me if I'm > wrong.) I cannot actually use the vdpau VO, hence I cannot verify. [...] > > > I guess this is one of the vos upstream mentioned, that don't support > > > screenshots. > > > > This does not seem to be the case: when I explicitly ask for gl, I am > > able to take screenshots (without the vf=screenshot setting in > > ~/.mplayer/config). > > Let's put it this way: since vdpau is selected -vf screenshot is not passed to > mplayer. Your hardware doesn't support vdpau, so the fallback gl is used. > However, with gl you need -vf screenshot. Ah, that seems to make sense, yes. Thanks for clarifying. -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/frx-gpg-key-transition-2010.txt New GnuPG key, see the transition document! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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