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I tried all kinds of screen capture apps but none of them worked on the FireTV for me. So after too much research, I found this nifty terminal command.

adb shell screencap -p /sdcard/screen.png

NOTE: replace /sdcard/ with desired save location if you want and screen.png with desired image name .png)

Perfect screen captures. Hope this saves someone else some time.
 
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The following command is what I use. It may need to be modified for windows, as I use it in OS X's terminal. The command takes a screenshot, names it with a timestamp, and saves it to the connected PC (not the Fire TV).
Code: 
./adb shell screencap -p | perl -pe "s/\x0D\x0A/\x0A/g" > "~/Downloads/firetvscreenshot_$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S).png"

I have the following in my Mac's .bash_profile file so that I can just enter "adbpic" and a screenshot file will appear in my downloads directory.
Code: 
alias adbpic='~/adb shell screencap -p | perl -pe "s/\x0D\x0A/\x0A/g" > "/Users/YOURUSERNAME/Downloads/firetvscreenshot_$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S).png"'
 
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The following command is what I use. It may need to be modified for windows, as I use it in OS X's terminal. The command takes a screenshot, names it with a timestamp, and saves it to the connected PC (not the Fire TV).
Code: 
./adb shell screencap -p | perl -pe "s/\x0D\x0A/\x0A/g" > "~/Downloads/firetvscreenshot_$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S).png"

I have the following in my Mac's .bash_profile file so that I can just enter "adbpic" and a screenshot file will appear in my downloads directory.
Code: 
alias adbpic='~/adb shell screencap -p | perl -pe "s/\x0D\x0A/\x0A/g" > "/Users/YOURUSERNAME/Downloads/firetvscreenshot_$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S).png"'
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That's great!

You don't have to do an 'adb pull' to download the .png file and works with just '>'? Is that an adb feature or perl?

It's probably really easy to make a Windows batch file with the same purpose.
 
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Newcron said:
That's great!

You don't have to do an 'adb pull' to download the .png file and works with just '>'? Is that an adb feature or perl?

It's probably really easy to make a Windows batch file with the same purpose.
Click to expand...
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'>' is shell syntax to redirect the output of a command to a file. The little perl code is there to clean up some end-of-line character conversion caused by adb shell.
 
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    htpcforall
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    I tried all kinds of screen capture apps but none of them worked on the FireTV for me. So after too much research, I found this nifty terminal command.

    adb shell screencap -p /sdcard/screen.png

    NOTE: replace /sdcard/ with desired save location if you want and screen.png with desired image name .png)

    Perfect screen captures. Hope this saves someone else some time.
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    The following command is what I use. It may need to be modified for windows, as I use it in OS X's terminal. The command takes a screenshot, names it with a timestamp, and saves it to the connected PC (not the Fire TV).
    Code: 
    ./adb shell screencap -p | perl -pe "s/\x0D\x0A/\x0A/g" > "~/Downloads/firetvscreenshot_$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S).png"

    I have the following in my Mac's .bash_profile file so that I can just enter "adbpic" and a screenshot file will appear in my downloads directory.
    Code: 
    alias adbpic='~/adb shell screencap -p | perl -pe "s/\x0D\x0A/\x0A/g" > "/Users/YOURUSERNAME/Downloads/firetvscreenshot_$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S).png"'
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    Newcron said:
    That's great!

    You don't have to do an 'adb pull' to download the .png file and works with just '>'? Is that an adb feature or perl?

    It's probably really easy to make a Windows batch file with the same purpose.
    Click to expand...
    Click to collapse

    '>' is shell syntax to redirect the output of a command to a file. The little perl code is there to clean up some end-of-line character conversion caused by adb shell.
    View

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