Bug#699394: gnome-mplayer: [Ctrl+T] fails to take screenshot

[Francesco Poli]

On Fri, 1 Feb 2013 18:52:07 +0100 Sebastian Ramacher wrote:

> On 2013-02-01 18:23:23, Sebastian Ramacher wrote:
> > > > Unfortunately I can't reproduce the bug. Could you please attach the output of
> > > > 'gnome-mplayer -v $thevideo'?
> > > 
> > > Sure!
[...]
> > > It actually shows an error message about the inability to take
> > > screenshots, but I fail to understand what's the problem.
> > > It seems to talk about some command-line option (forgot
> > > -vf screenshot?), but I haven't found this option in the man page...
[...]
> > 
> > Thanks for the log.

You're welcome, thanks to you for your kind assistance!

> > I've installed mplayer (instead of mplayer2) to
> > check if that might be a problem and in fact it is. With mplayer I can
> > see the same error message in the log.

Woah!  I hadn't noticed the mplayer2 package in Debian!
Shame on me: I see that it's in testing since 2011...

Is it mature enough to replace mplayer?

> 
> My analysis is wrong. It also depends on the video output used. In any
> case, an error message would be appropriate.

In this case, maybe my mplayer configuration can help to pinpoint the
issue:

  $ cat ~/.mplayer/config 
  [default]
  ao=jack,alsa
  volume=20 
  vo=xv

Thanks again for taking care of this bug report.
Bye.

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