xscreensaver-getimage-video(1)

xscreensaver-getimage-video1

Grab a video still frame for use by screen savers

Usage

xscreensaver-getimage-video [--verbose]

Overview

The xscreensaver-getimage-video program is a helper program for the xscreensaver hacks that manipulate images. Specifically, it is invoked by xscreensaver-getimage(6x) as needed.

It grabs a single frame of video from the system's video input to a file, and prints the name of that file on stdout. It does this by figuring out which frame-grabbing programs are installed on the system, and invoking the first one it finds.

Options

xscreensaver-getimage-video accepts the following options:

--verbose

Print diagnostics.

Releases

12 releases since Debian 3.0 (Woody); the text changed 11 times.

  1. 3.0
  2. 3.1
  3. 4.0
  4. 5.0
  5. 6.0
  6. 7
  7. 8
  8. 9
  9. 10
  10. 11
  11. 12
  12. 13

--stdout until Debian 11 (Bullseye).

Author

Jamie Zawinski <[email protected]>, 14-Apr-2001.

From xscreensaver-data 6.09+dfsg1-1 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.