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Dear magick, using -window -root -screen I have less frequent "pauses" in video playback of the underlying window, but it takes a lot longer to complete the iterations of 100 consecutive screenshots, so the total number of pauses is larger. Specifically, with import -window -root -screen I counted ...

Thank you for your reply, magick. "-screen" demands me having to click the "cross" in order to take the screenshot. To illustrate the problem, while watching a flash video in a browser, using import to take 100 subsequent screenshot makes the video motion erratic. This is not happening with e.g ...

Dear ImageMagick users & developers, I am using ImageMagick to import whole desktop screenshots in some of my bash scripts in order to take action when certain "visual patterns" appear on screen. I actually monitor a fullscreen window that runs a video. While importing the desktop there are freezes ...