Taking screenshots.

[thekillerbean]

i want to take a screenshot with a paused image of a movie but all i get in the window displaying the movie is a black screen - how do you guys manage to take shots of with a still of a movie - like on real player?

i'm running redhat linux 7.2 in a virtualized world via vmware.

also, i might add that i haven't been successful on the microshaft side either - what gives? i have a geforce2 gts video card if that helps any.

thanks.

[Okie]

which tool are you using for the screenshot???

there are two that i know of that takes screenshots, one included with KDE and The Gimp takes screenshots too...

i never tryed to take a screenshot with a video playing, so i don't know for user, try The Gimp...

[mrBen]

I'm no expert, but I think it depends on which library the DVD uses to display - it needs to display thru X to show on X screenshots, but this tends to be too slow, so people normally are using another library within X to display.

(I think that's how it works, anyway).

[nomo_green]

can always just type in console

import test.jpg and hit enter, then you'll get a crosshair. click on an empty area to take pic of entire desktop or click on window for just that window. keep in mind this is a very primative way to take a screenshot.

change test.jpg to whatever you want your pic called.
it will show up in your home dir.

[hop-frog]

I've found that the Gimp takes lousy screenshots.

It dithers the images -and I don't mean after an image has been saved.

Does anyone know if there is a way to fix this?

[r0nster]

Usually when I want screenshots, I use the utility that comes with KDE. Imagemagik's import command can get the job done. One person in the Gentoo forums mentioned "scrot" Here is its homepage. (http://linuxbrit.co.uk/scrot/)
Scrot uses the imlib2 library. I haven't used scrot so I can't say if its good or not. Give that a try. Gimp is rather clunky about doing screenies and like others have stated, its quality could be a bit better.

[chikn]

Originally posted by hop-frog
I've found that the Gimp takes lousy screenshots.

It dithers the images -and I don't mean after an image has been saved.

Does anyone know if there is a way to fix this?

Does this image looked dithered to you, not to me

http://66.191.192.24/ss5.jpg

[hop-frog]

Originally posted by chikn


Does this image looked dithered to you, not to me

http://66.191.192.24/ss5.jpg
yeah, it does, but it could be my 16bit display.

Here's the more recent way I was seeing the dithering and know it is not related to res:

1. Save the following as `hello.xpm':

/* XPM */
static char * hello_xpm[] = {
"21 21 3 1",
" c None",
". c #000000",
"+ c #738194",
".....................",
".+++++++++++++++++++.",
".+++++++++++++++++++.",
".+++++++++++++++++++.",
".+++++++++++++++++++.",
".+++++++++++++++++++.",
".+++++++++++++++++++.",
".+++++++++++++++++++.",
".+++++++++++++++++++.",
".+++++++++++++++++++.",
".+++++++++++++++++++.",
".+++++++++++++++++++.",
".+++++++++++++++++++.",
".+++++++++++++++++++.",
".+++++++++++++++++++.",
".+++++++++++++++++++.",
".+++++++++++++++++++.",
".+++++++++++++++++++.",
".+++++++++++++++++++.",
".+++++++++++++++++++.",
"....................."};

2. then open up the xpm in the gimp.

3. zoom in a few times and you will see that the image does not dither.

4. zoom it back to 100%.

4. then take a screenshot of that window and zoom in on the center of the new screenshot.