FiREFLi Posted March 29, 2005 Share Posted March 29, 2005 Thanks to slimy for inspiring this guide. :) It's simple really but judging by the amount of people who ask... Screenshotting Video how can i take a screenshot of a movie Video Screen Shot? screenshot from video ...I think it might be handy to have around. I can just link to this instead of explaining everytime :rolleyes: ^And they're just the ones I replied to :pinch: The Guide 1. Right-click the desktop > Properties > Settings > Advanced > Troubleshooting > Hardware acceleration: NoneBypass graphics card 2. Press the print screen key on your keyboard. Saves the entire desktop as an image to the clipboard. 3. Paste into your favourite graphics editor. Even paint will do. Now you can see what was saved. From here you can do what you like with it, saving might be a good idea ;) 4. Right-click the desktop > Properties > Settings > Advanced > Troubleshooting > Hardware acceleration: Full (or whatever it was beforehand) Return graphics settings back to normal How Things Work This is a slightly edited version - only for grammers' sake - of a technical explanation of how this works from a reply Kieran made to one of the previous threads I answered: The explanation is if you have harware acceleration enabled, all rendering of the movie is done on your graphics card. When you do a screen capture, it gets what is in the screen buffer before it is sent to the graphics card, so that data isnt there yet. If you turn acceleration off, the movie is forced to be rendered by software and is so in the screen buffer before it is sent to the gfx card and hence can be captured.584640373[/snapback] Enjoy :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vorenus Posted March 29, 2005 Share Posted March 29, 2005 Thanks to slimy for inspiring this guide. :) It's simple really but judging by the amount of people who ask...Screenshotting Video how can i take a screenshot of a movie Video Screen Shot? screenshot from video ...I think it might be handy to have around. I can just link to this instead of explaining everytime :rolleyes: ^And they're just the ones I replied to :pinch: The Guide How Things Work This is a slightly edited version - only for grammers' sake - of a technical explanation of how this works from a reply Keiran made to one of the previous threads I answered: Enjoy :) 585688517[/snapback] Ummmm.... you mean "grammars" ? Right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FiREFLi Posted March 29, 2005 Author Share Posted March 29, 2005 Ummmm.... you mean "grammars" ? Right? 585688531[/snapback] I'm not sure :s I did think about it a bit when I wrote it but I thought grammers' was right :blink: Wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Lyle Global Moderator Posted March 29, 2005 Global Moderator Share Posted March 29, 2005 very cool, always wondered why the hell i can't take screens shots of DVD's LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee_Mann Posted March 29, 2005 Share Posted March 29, 2005 Oh im sure there are ways :p but yea, good guide lots of people ask me stuff this all the time, thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valerus Posted March 29, 2005 Share Posted March 29, 2005 Cool, thanks. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insanekiwi Posted March 29, 2005 Share Posted March 29, 2005 thanks for this guide (Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nighthawk-F117 Posted March 29, 2005 Share Posted March 29, 2005 thanks for this guide (Y) 585689440[/snapback] Thanks for that guide. I've never known how to do it, now I do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tel Posted March 29, 2005 Share Posted March 29, 2005 thank u very much! been after this for a while now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay C Posted March 29, 2005 Share Posted March 29, 2005 wvery useful ... thank you :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slimy Posted March 30, 2005 Share Posted March 30, 2005 great. that's guide #2 that i suggested, maybe i should get around to doing my own? :p - good work fr3ak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FiREFLi Posted March 30, 2005 Author Share Posted March 30, 2005 very cool, always wondered why the hell i can't take screens shots of DVD's LOL 585688745[/snapback] Oh im sure there are ways :p but yea, good guide lots of people ask me stuff this all the time, thanks 585688895[/snapback] Cool, thanks. :) 585689007[/snapback] thanks for this guide (Y) 585689440[/snapback] Thanks for that guide. I've never known how to do it, now I do. 585689559[/snapback] thank u very much! been after this for a while now. 585691143[/snapback] wvery useful ... thank you :D 585691253[/snapback] great. that's guide #2 that i suggested, maybe i should get around to doing my own? :p - good work fr3ak 585694071[/snapback] Thank you all (Y) Happy to help. :yes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bhav Posted April 11, 2005 Share Posted April 11, 2005 this will prove to be very useful. i found i could only take screenshots like normal when using QuickTime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McDizzle28 Posted June 20, 2005 Share Posted June 20, 2005 In powerdvd there is a shortcut key to send it to you clipboard... I believe it is © for capture Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turkishdelight Posted June 22, 2005 Share Posted June 22, 2005 Great work. By the way, it's "grammar's" :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiG- Posted June 24, 2005 Share Posted June 24, 2005 i usually click the camera button in powerdvd. print screen usually works if the window isnt active. :shifty: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Dragon Posted June 24, 2005 Share Posted June 24, 2005 Yep, my video app can do it, but its good to know why the printscreen button couldn't :). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ACTIONpack Posted July 1, 2005 Share Posted July 1, 2005 get your digital camera and take pictures when the movie is playing :rofl: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
controlle Posted July 1, 2005 Share Posted July 1, 2005 bsplayer and media player classic can take screenshots of video without messing around with any video settings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ACTIONpack Posted July 1, 2005 Share Posted July 1, 2005 your digital camera can do that job too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lukesaucer Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 Nice guide, I always wondered why I couldn't take screenshots of dvd's, thanks man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cf4444 Posted October 6, 2005 Share Posted October 6, 2005 vlc has snapshot too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angel Blue01 Posted October 6, 2005 Share Posted October 6, 2005 Isn't that application controlled (media players have options to turn off acceleration)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angel Blue01 Posted October 6, 2005 Share Posted October 6, 2005 bsplayer and media player classic can take screenshots of video without messing around with any video settings 586146973[/snapback] I tried bsplayer a while back and it couldn't take a screenshot of a DVD. Havn't tried media player classic. I turned off hardware acceleration and some progams still can't take screenshots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azusa Posted October 20, 2005 Share Posted October 20, 2005 hello why not just use in windows media player ctrl+i it works fine and most other players have the feature in one of the menus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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