taking screen shots of movies
 

is there a way i can take a screen shots of a movie? *.mpg, *.avi etc...

Are you retarded?

I can't..

It always copys the player and background but where the video was it's always blank :-/

print screen kthxbi

I know you don't think I wasn't talking about the Print Screen button...

When I take a screenshot It always copys the player and background but where the video was it's always blank :-/

Are you illiterate?

pause the video where the image you want is, and then use one of thos eprograms that take pic of your dekstop

Nope.

Me>Spam.











Enough.

Me < Spam.

:(

any other way of doing this? like a certern media player?

Open a random movie in Windows Media Player. While it is playing, open the movie you want to cap from in a second window of WMP. Pause the movie and print screen.

kool, thanks a lot man.

Why the hell does it do that :-/

It uses video playback acceleration on the graphics card to display the video if it's available (it's been a standard feature for at least 2 generations of cards...). Because of the way this works, the video never appears in the screen buffer, and is thus normally uncapturable. By first tieing up the video playback accelleration resource by playing another video, you force the second video to be rendered on the main CPU, passing through the screen buffer, and thus capturable. Some cards seem to have more than one video playback accelleration resource, so this technique will not work for everyone.

WW>All

Thanks for the info!

i feel like an idiot...but how do u open 2 wmps???

i tried to use WMP but it STILL din't work, i used quicktime and it worked for a while.....i'll post the pic, once i find that darn thing!!

ok it works like 2-3 times, then on my 4th shots it went blank...wtf?