To take screenshots with mplayer, you need to first run mplayer with a special flag.

mplayer -vf screenshot movie001.mp4

Then once the movie is playing you can screen shot any frame by hitting the 's' key. mplayer will name the files starting with shot0001.png.

When I first tried …

I was helping my girlfriend watch some videos that she needed for a class that she was having trouble playing on her mac. Once I saw that ubuntu wasn't able to play them out of the box I looked at the extension and found a solution on ubuntu forums.

The …