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Did you ever notice that you cannot take a screenshot of a movie that is playing through windows media player or VLC player? In fact if you do and open the file in MSPaint it will show a black video screen (if you closed the video) or it will continue to show what the video is showing (if its playing it will play through paint). Did you ever wonder why that is and how you can get around it (without buying some stupid software)? Well follow this very simple guide and you'll be set.
The free and simple way to capture Images from Windows Media Player:
1 Open Window Media Player
2 Then go to Tools>Options
3 In Options, select the Performance Tab
4 Down below, click on the Advanced Button
5 Uncheck 'Use Overlays'
6 Click Apply/Ok
Now run your video in any size or screen resolution. Press 'Print Screen Key' as normal. If this doesn't work still, read on:
Try pressing "CTRL+I". This pops up a 'save as' window after capturing the screenshot. Save it where you want it and wah-lah.
If you still have problems, here is a continuation to the last method:
After you open Window Media Player. Go to Tools>Options>Performance Tab. You will see a picture. Reduce the "Video acceleration" from the default 'Full' to 'None', click 'Ok' and then close down media player.
Next, open the file you want to take a still image of using the Print Screen method - press 'ALT' and 'PrintScrn' to copy an image of media player to the clipboard.
Paste it into Paint or Irfanview, save, gg.
PS- Carnac (iirc) told me recently that if you holt Alt while you press the print screen button it will copy the current window alone. Cool!
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thedeadhaji
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ctrl+e on gom player.
also, vlc has a built in capture fct as well
just a fyi.
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All (good) video players allow you to make screenshots. You just have to do it from within the player.
Much faster than such workarounds.
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Melbourne5338 Posts
On November 20 2007 15:30 thedeadhaji wrote:
also, vlc has a built in capture fct as well
video -> snapshot
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Overlays are useful. Hardware video acceleration is good. Why would you wanna take screenshots like they did back in '95 ?
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i've had the same problem, but if u put video acceleration to none i've noticed the quality is much lower.
On November 20 2007 17:47 chiflutz wrote:
Overlays are useful. Hardware video acceleration is good. Why would you wanna take screenshots like they did back in '95 ?
most liquibet pics are from screenshots
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South Africa4316 Posts
I think the hotkey is F5 in MPC. It also allows you to save the screenshot as either a bmp or a jpg.
If you really wish to take a screenshot of the video, then I think the easiest way is just to open two instances of the video (say open the video in VLC and WMP) and then to use print screen for the second instance.
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Belgium6774 Posts
You can use virtualdub.
Its a free tiny prog thats useful for a lot of stuff ànd taking screens.
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Why would anyone use WMP, seriously?
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You knew how to do this, but you couldn't do the MS Paint text thing? Lawl.
niteReloaded, maybe because it comes with all Windows PCs?
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Thanks. Now I won't have to depend on just bsplayer for snapshots
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On November 21 2007 05:18 fanatacist wrote:
You knew how to do this, but you couldn't do the MS Paint text thing? Lawl.
niteReloaded, maybe because it comes with all Windows PCs? ž
well yeah, obviously, but thats where it ends basically. Any advanced user (and a user who writes a how-to guide strikes me as advanced) would quickly realize there are better players out there.
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Actually I prefer to use WMP over other players as the options are much easier to tweek and play with (brightness etc). The only time I use VLC or other players is if a specific type of video requires it (FLV,RAM,RMVB) etc.
I'm sure other programs are much lighter on the resource load but usually when I am watching something on my computer its taking my full attention anyways so it doesn't matter.
Also WMP allows me to load a series of videos to play consecutively, others can't do this.
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