On Saturday 23 December 2000 14:03, Laurent Boulard Debian User wrote: > Le Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 07:25:49PM +0100, John Travis écrivait : > > Thanks, that's a lot faster than my previous methods. Except the > > video (from xine) still shows up as a bright ass blue box :-). Any > > other suggestions? > > you can't grab the display of xine because it use Xv extension. The > display of the movie on the screen is render by the video card. xine > computes the display in memory and the video card grabs it in order > to replace the blue color of the root display. This is why you see a > blue color on your screenshot. > The (almost) only way of doing a movie shot is by xine which know > where is memory of the movie. So, until xine offers a grab fonction, > you can't take a shot. If you really want to grab a picture of the > movie, disable the Xv rendeering but be ready to lose many many > frames. > > Laurent. > PS: sorry for my bad english
Thanks, I hadn't thought of that one yet :-). Screenshots taken! Too bad I couldn't get any fullscreens without xv but all well. There is a somewhat random (at least to me) _huge_ memory leak if you force it not to use the xv extension. Thanks again. P.S. Your english is much better than my <put any language here> 8*). jt
