Screen Capture Problems

#1 Masterfinn

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Posted 08 December 2003 - 05:19 AM

Hi

Im watching a video in WMP 9 and i paused the video then hit "alt+printscreen" then went into paint and tried to paste it. It pasts fine but the video is black. It shows the player and everything but I cant get it to save and capure the video at that time when i pause it. I have tried to paste it into Paintshop pro and photoshop still nothing. I have also tried third party screen caputre software.. still nothing. Its weird casue it shows the video part of it when i paste it in and the video file is still open But as soon as i close the video file and go back into paint its gone. Is there anyway possible to capure a screen shot of a video.
thanx,

Masterfinn

#2 adamvjackson

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Posted 08 December 2003 - 07:20 AM

That's because the playing video is using an overlay, think of the screen in layers, and that layer is being excluded from capture.

#3 Tomay

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Posted 08 December 2003 - 12:33 PM

Some players like Bsplay have a screen capture function.

#4 duhmez

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Posted 09 December 2003 - 01:58 AM

Easy peezy.

Goto display properties>advanced. then click troubleshooting. Slide the slider bar to "none"
Then take your screenshot.
then when finished, turn back to full acceleration. (Do not forget otherwise your games wont work.)