Taking Screen Captures from mplayer (works on OpenBSD)

The mplayer man page has everything, but it takes a little digging.

  1. Simply do:
    mplayer -vf-add screenshot File.whatever
  2. Then, during playback, use either s to take a single screenshot, or S to start taking a screenshot of every frame. They are stored in the current directory as shotXXXX.png.