[mythtv-users] Req: ScreenShot of CID working

[Ken Bass]

Thanks!. Here is a snapshot of caller id (CID) in action (which is in CVS):

http://www.kenbass.com/cid.jpg


On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 11:43:12 -0500, "Joseph A. Caputo"
<jcaputo1 at comcast.net> wrote:

>On Friday 21 November 2003 11:30, Ken Bass wrote:
>>   How does one take a snapshot of mythtv? mythtv uses the 'XV'
>> extention and 'xwd' and 'gimp' cannot capture that. Is there a
>> capture built into mythtv that will dump the current screen or is
>> there a utility that does with with XV?
>
>To get a screen shot of a playing video screen (the menus & GUIs don't 
>use Xv), just run mythfrontend with the "NO_XV" environment variable 
>set, like so:
>
>	env NO_XV=1 mythfrontend
>
>This forces Myth to fall back to MIT-SHM output methods.  It'll tax your 
>CPU more to do the scaling, but it's good for getting a screenshot.
>
>-JAC
>
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