View Full Version : taking screen shots of movies
iusetobekool
2003-11-20, 04:12 PM
is there a way i can take a screen shots of a movie? *.mpg, *.avi etc...
uncapped
2003-11-20, 04:15 PM
Are you retarded?
Adrenachrome
2003-11-20, 04:48 PM
I can't..
It always copys the player and background but where the video was it's always blank :-/
Hades-Knight
2003-11-20, 05:09 PM
print screen kthxbi
Adrenachrome
2003-11-20, 05:19 PM
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 :-/
iusetobekool
2003-11-20, 06:01 PM
Are you retarded?
Are you illiterate?
Hades-Knight
2003-11-20, 06:08 PM
pause the video where the image you want is, and then use one of thos eprograms that take pic of your dekstop
uncapped
2003-11-20, 07:20 PM
Are you retarded?
Are you illiterate?
Nope.
Adrenachrome
2003-11-20, 07:38 PM
Me>Spam.
Enough.
uncapped
2003-11-20, 07:44 PM
Me < Spam.
:(
iusetobekool
2003-11-20, 08:34 PM
pause the video where the image you want is, and then use one of thos eprograms that take pic of your dekstop
any other way of doing this? like a certern media player?
WetWired
2003-11-20, 09:42 PM
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.
iusetobekool
2003-11-20, 10:48 PM
kool, thanks a lot man.
Adrenachrome
2003-11-21, 03:07 PM
Why the hell does it do that :-/
WetWired
2003-11-21, 03:26 PM
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.
Adrenachrome
2003-11-21, 03:35 PM
WW>All
Thanks for the info!
Demosthenes
2003-11-22, 09:09 AM
i feel like an idiot...but how do u open 2 wmps???
J_iceman
2003-11-22, 10:41 AM
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!!
iusetobekool
2003-11-23, 02:38 AM
ok it works like 2-3 times, then on my 4th shots it went blank...wtf?
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