Media Player Screen Shots?

[xcellerate]

I have this top gear video that i want to take a screen shot of, however it has some protection BS on it. Whenever i try to take a picture it just turns the screen black. I could understand if this were a DVD or something, but it's just a tv show. I've tried all four of my media players and they all do the same thing, is there any way around this? I even tries downloading a 'screen shot' program from download.com and it did the exact same thing.

 

[Blackghost905]

I dont belive there is. I have been trying to do the same thing for about a week

 

[Ren.182]

I had a program called something Screen Grabber... It had some other name before it but I can't remember what it was.

It worked when i took screenshots from WMP classic.

 

[xcellerate]

ah! that is so dumb, what if you made your own movie from video you recorded at christmas or something and wanted to take a picture of part of it! I hate you windows!

 

[StardogChampion]

It's nothing to do with protection. I think it's just the codecs or whatnot can't be screengrabbed using prnt scrn.

If it's an avi file then open it in VirtualDub then take a screenshot from there in the menu.

 

[Reaktor4]

Its to do with directx i think.
Open your file in wmp, go to tools/options/performance and set video acceleration to none. Apply it and wait till its ready. Take your screenshot then set acceleration to full again.

 

[oldagerocker]

Yes, what raektor said... turn hardware video acceleration off.

 

[Que-Ever]

I dunno what you're talking about... but when I take a screenshot, it has the screen in paint, but it's still moving. weird.

 

[Reaktor4]

Thats the actual video still being displayed, not the screenshot, close your player and see if its still there..

 

[Muffin Man]

ive done same thing, it goes away