[vdr] Re: Picture viewer

["Gernot A. Weber" <gernot@tux-web.de>]

On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Walter, Marcel wrote:

> Hmmm.... would also be nice if one was able to take a
> picture from a running broadcast ... these pictures may

Well, this is possible. Connect on port 2001 and type:

grab help

You will get a text how to use this function:

HELP GRAB
214-GRAB <filename> [ jpeg | pnm [ <quality> [ <sizex> <sizey> ] ] ]
214-    Grab the current frame and save it to the given file. Images can
214-    be stored as JPEG (default) or PNM, at the given quality (default
214-    is 'maximum', only applies to JPEG) and size (default is full
screen).
214 End of HELP info


Bye,


    Gernot Weber


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