Old thread: I asked whether it was possible to take a screenshot of a DVD
using Ogle, and Xv, as most screenshot grabbers come up with a blue screen where the dvd display is:-
Yup, use import:
/usr/bin/import -silent -display :0.0 -window root file.jpg Import is part of imagemagick,
Just checked, and that comes up with a blue screen too. :(
Try mplayer (www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/). It allows you to pipe frames to a file. I managed to get a set of screenshots out of a DivX movie with it. The software support DVD playback, so you might be lucky. Another option is software based dvd playback, which doesn't use h/w to render the frames. The reason for this is that h/w implementations often use a layered approach on output to the screen, so what you see is not what is rendered by your window manager.
Ashley
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