LE 9.80 Nightly on RPi 4B - Kodi Screenshot does not work properly

ghtester · November 28, 2020 at 1:43 PM

Hopefully it's not a feature of Kodi 19.0-BETA1 as the screenshot filename's structure has been changed a bit but I couldn't find more info / fresh documentation related.

Action taken while TV playing:

kodi-send --action="Screenshot"

or

kodi-send --action="TakeScreenshot"

or invoked by keyboard (CTRL+S or PrtScr)

The screenshots are made in /storage/screenshots/ folder but...

Currently the Screenshot / TakeScreenshot action does not put the active video frame snapshot to .png file, just the Kodi's active GUI menu or a just black page if no menu is active.

Screenshot names are now starting from:

screenshot00000.png

Everything worked as expected (and documented) in LE 9.2.6 official with Kodi 18.9.0 - if the Screenshot was taken, there's a picture frame (combined with active Kodi GUI menu ) saved to .png file.

Screenshot names were starting from:

screenshot000.png

**HiassofT** · November 28, 2020 at 3:53 PM

This is a known issue with Kodi Matrix/gbm. The milestone for fixing this has recently been moved to the next kodi version (20). See [GBM] add ability to screenshot with video plane by lrusak · Pull Request #18741 · xbmc/xbmc · GitHub

so long,

Hias

ghtester · September 28, 2021 at 9:32 AM

Kodi 20 .0-ALPHA1 (19.90.101) is already released in LE 11 Nightly 20210927, unfortunately this issue still persists.

Petes · December 28, 2022 at 3:13 AM

This thread is not obsolete, I still have this issue and I don't know when it's going to be fixed. Not sure if it's only the RPi or every single device using LE 10 has the issue, hopefully this basic feature is restored soon, guess we'll see.

According to this https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/18741 it won't be fixed until Omega 21.0 Alpha 1, if I understand correctly.

**chewitt** · December 28, 2022 at 9:44 AM

Quote from Petes

According to this https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/18741 it won't be fixed until Omega 21.0 Alpha 1, if I understand correctly.

There isn't a nice way to (re)add the feature, so that PR is more of a hack to generate discussion than a serious proposal for code merge. As such it's not been merged and it's been moved K20 to K21, and at some future point it'll probably be punted down the road to Kodi 'M' too.

ghtester · December 29, 2022 at 2:18 AM

Look here to learn a possible temporary workaround:

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RE: LibreELEC-RPi4.arm-9.2.8.img

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Assuming this is an occasional requirement, if you disable DRM Prime in video acceleration settings first, I believe screenshot will work.

popcornmix

November 6, 2022 at 3:48 PM

ghtester · September 12, 2023 at 7:42 AM

Kodi 21 .0-ALPHA3 (20.90.301) is already released in LibreELEC-RPi4.aarch64-12.0-nightly-20230911, unfortunately this issue still persists.

AdrielHoppe · September 22, 2023 at 9:22 AM

I am facing an issue can ia ask a question?

**chewitt** · September 22, 2023 at 1:55 PM

Quote from AdrielHoppe

I am facing an issue can ia ask a question?

If you want an answer it would be a good idea