[mythtv-users] Screen capture in a paused recording?

[Mark Kendall]

On 8 May 2011 10:27, Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12 April 2011 08:01, Ian Evans <dheianevans at gmail.com> wrote:
>> That would be a nice feature for creating the fanart backgrounds in
>> some themes. Right now, I'm just loading the mpegs in VLC and using
>> the snapshot command.
>
> If you're using VDPAU that will not work maybe that's why you get a
> blank screen.
>
> You need to use fully software decoded and rendered display to be able
> to do a screen capture.

This has been fixed in master (and hence will be in 0.25). Any
screenshot should give you an accurate representation of what was on
screen regardless of the UI painting or video rendering methods you
are using - including VDPAU.

regards

Mark