[mythtv-users] Screenshots for metadata issue

[Jay Foster]

On 10/28/2010 12:07 PM, Jim Morton<Jim at Morton.hrcoxmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've a few shows that JAMU doesn't get fan art for. So I checked
> thetvdb.com and sure enough there isn't any there. So I thought I'd get
> some screen shots and use those instead.
>
> This is the problem - when watching a recording, I pause it, then grab a
> screenshot, and it is blank. There seems to be 2 ways to get a screen
> shot. First is to hit the "PrntScr" key and up pops a save box allowing
> me to name and save it. This seems to be outside of Myth. The other way
> is to use Alt-P (which I configured in Keybindings) and that names and
> saves in the "screen shot directory" as defined in Myth. I'd guess this
> is the built in Myth way. These are blank also.
>
> I can get good screenshots of the menus using either method but not of a
> show being watched. What's the deal here???
>
> branches/release-0-23-fixes [s25362]
>
I've had good success with scrot.  Open a terminal shell and run "scrot 
<options> <file>; sleep 5", alt-tab back to mythtv, wait 5 seconds and 
you now have a screen shot.

Jay