[mythtv-users] Wallpaper for thetvdb.com

[Clifford Snow]

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Colin McGregor <colin.mc151 at hotmail.com>wrote:

>
>
> Robert does make a fair comment, anyone with more artistic talent than me
> should likely take other routes than starting with a screen shot ... This
> noted, to answer Clifford's question, here is how I took a screen shot to
> act as the basis for my fan art:
>
> - Logged into my "main" Linux desktop box running KDE (as opposed to Gnome)
> - Downloaded an episode of the show I was interested in from my MythTV box
> to my desktop box
> - Started Totem Movie Player and loaded in the TV show I was interested in
> - Played and then paused at the image that I wanted as my fan art starting
> point
> - Started up KSnapshot and set a snapshot delay of 10 seconds
> - Clicked on "New Snapshot"
> - QUICKLY brought Totem Movie Player back up and toggled full screen mode.
> - Waited long enough to make sure the snapshot was taken and exited full
> screen mode.
> - Saved the image from KSnapshot.
>
> There you are, a way to get a TV show / movie screen shot, ugly but
> workable... But to put a bit of emphasis on Robert's point the above is not
> the route to great fan art (usable, tolerable maybe, but not great
> stuff...).
>
>
Thanks for the help.  I did find artwork online, but I am worried about
copyright.  The movie database has been updated with my modification of the
images.  But in the future I hope to find a way to generate my own images.
 Or at least images directly from the video.  I downloaded videocut to see
if it will allow high quality images directly from the video.  Once I have a
chance to play with the software, I will post my results here.

Clifford
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