#573 Unable to "screenshot" a paused video

[Odra]

Hello, I've noticed that while a video not playing(paused), it is not possible to take a "smplayer_screenshot". Clicking on the menu item does nothing.
Please either allow to take a single screenshot whilst the video is paused or at least gray out the item in the menu.

[Odra]

Oh look, this is a duplicate of http://sourceforge.net/p/smplayer/bugs/333/

It seems SMPlayer needs to advance the video to take a screenshot, and someone thought not automatically frame stepping after pressing the screenshot button and instead putting the screenshot "on queue" without any visual aid or notification what-so-ever to alert that something actually happened was a better default behaviour than just framestepping and taking the screenshot.

I think you might want to consider adding a visual feedback that SMPlayer will screenshot.

[Sérgio M. Basto]

Actually the screenshot will be taken (once the video resumes).

[Ricardo Villalba]

It's actually a problem of mplayer.

You can replace it with mplayer2, it can take screenshots when the video is paused.