Screenshots are coming out oddly

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Screenshots are coming out oddly

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For awhile now my screenshots have been coming out oddly, which is irritating. Anyone know why this happens? They come out slanted and greyish.
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This has come up a few times, including recently. Use a resolution that's a multiple of 4 pixels wide, or fix the bug. You can even largely restore the screenshot.
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Jonathan wrote:This has come up a few times, including recently. Use a resolution that's a multiple of 4 pixels wide, or fix the bug. You can even largely restore the screenshot.
My bad, didn't think to search :oops:

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/me had the same problem with his toshiba.
I'm still amazed at Jonathan's fixing of the pictures :o
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I finally reported the bug. That may be more productive than being a show-off and restoring screenshots (although it isn't that hard).
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Re: Screenshots are coming out oddly

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I attached a patch file with Jonathans fix to the bug report.
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Thanks. You know, this may just be enough to make me apply the patch. We'll see :)
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Re: Screenshots are coming out oddly

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I tried out the --videoout option to pipe the raw video to avconv (ffmpeg) like this.

The screenshot bug is already fixed in my version, but same happens for --videoout if I use my laptops native resolution and fullscreen as you can see here:
http://unk.me/stuff/recordings/test.avi (2.3MB)
Where is the place to fix that?

EDIT:
Also reported a bug
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Re: Screenshots are coming out oddly

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Fixed in 0.4 revision 1478. I'd recommend that for those video recordings, you stick to standard resolutions; some playback devices are picky and do not play back everything.
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