Take screenshot of media playing

Plex Players Desktop Players
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has anyone been able to get plex to allow the taking of screenshots? talking about internal caps like virtually every player, inlcuding plex’s underlying mpv, lets you do.

i tried editing the mpv.conf on embedded but had no luck. the mac app version doesnt seem to have the right directory to even try

mpv conf parameters would be something like

screenshot-format=png
screenshot-png-compression=1
screenshot-directory=“users/soandso/plexcaps”
screenshot-template="%F-%tY-%tm-%td-%tHh%tMm%tSs"

then a key command for input conf

either this or the ability to send plex content to an external desktop player would work for me. the latter of which you can do with existing browser plugins, but only for files locally stored on the same device. (edit: all my media is served from one machine on the home network, which contains local files and an sshfs share)

Screenshots on MacOS -- Keystrokes / Pause in the way
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Wouldn’t Press Shift-Command-4 work? or do you want to take a capture of the video while playing?

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yeah i want to take direct captures, like vlc, mpv, or any other player lets you do. plex runs on mpv so the ability should be there, somewhere.

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have you figured out a way to do this?

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Hold Alt, Press Printscreen fills the buffer with a shot of the active screen. Paste that in something, like Paint.

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at least it appears the discussion didn’t go anywhere…
what’s wrong with the built-in screenshot shortcuts of macOS?
Shift+Command+4 might be a poor start as it’ll require you to actually select the area to take the screenshot from…
but what about

  • Shift+Command+3 to save the current (full) screen to your desktop (should do the job if you’re in full-screen mode)
  • Shift+Command+5 gives you an overlay to pick the app you want to take a screenshot from (or to select an area or full-screen)

@JuiceWSA: OP was about macOS… what you call printscreen is Ctrl+Shift+Command+3 for us :wink:

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Ah so… Doesn’t our F12 grab a acreen and put it in Screenshots? Can’t recall atm.

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