From: Ricardo Campos Sent: 26 March 2002 09:37
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. :(
Almost anything that takes a screenshot using the X api is going to do this.... :( A feature of X.
One quick hack is to take the data straight from the video buffer....
something like "cat /dev/fb0 > myfile.fb" should do the trick (untested, but logic dictated it should work, if you have a FB-enabled kernel, setup, etc)
There are tools out there to convert this into "something else" (jpg, etc), but I am buggered if I can think of any right now....
-Darran
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