screen capture?

[PriNcE oF SpAcE]

anyone know how to screen capture from either windows media player or divx player?

if I do the usual print screen routine the picture window just shows up black...now quicktime got a nice built in copy/paste function ....but unfortunately it's not able to play the vid I want to cap.

 

[Lil' Timmy]

hmm.. no i don't.. does this help at all? i've no idea what's going on...

http://www.calstatela.edu/its/techsupport/multimedia/windowsmedia/develop2/WM9_ses_capscr.htm

 

[theneb]

They have protection which means that you cannot capture but there are ways around, I usually find powerdvd does a good job at getting around them, if not Hypersnap may work.

 

[Baal]

Yea, power DVD works...or

http://www.download.com

then search "screen capture" or something to that effect. tons of programs.

 

[PriNcE oF SpAcE]

I have power DVD and I can get it to play the non DVD-files that I want to capture....but it won't capture them...only normal DVD stuff :-/

meh...I'll try and get another proggie...just annoying that I have to use another one. grr.

 

[Shuzer]

You CAN screen capture with print screen in WMP, do the following to make it work:

Launch WMP
Click on..
Tools > Options > Performance > Advanced
Uncheck "Use Overlays", click OK

 

[PriNcE oF SpAcE]

k...I'll try that.

 

[PriNcE oF SpAcE]

doesn't either...only if I switch video acceleration fully off...and then I can't play it full screen...blow.

gonna find another program :dozey:

 

[Shuzer]

Should've worked.. not sure about DVDs, actually.

Anyhow, WinDVD allows you to screencap DVDs at the touch of a button

 

[FictiousWill]

It's not any kind of clever security program - it's just that. Video acceleration. Even though it should work in full screen, why do you need it in full-screen to take screenshots? With no acceleration the vid will probably run poorly anyway. If you need high-rez shots, just maximize the vid window and take the shot, then trim off the borders.

 

[[Matt]]

Use NVDVD! Its the best Software DVD player ive ever used and i have used both WinDVD and PowerDVD. NVDVD allows you to screencap virtually anything and it also allows you to record the sound from the file you are watching into a seperate wav file with no quality loss.

 

[PriNcE oF SpAcE]

lol I downloaded a prog that apparently should allow you to cap. anything....but it's still the same problem.

 

[[Matt]]

you could try turning off video acceleration? that sometimes works.... or try NVDVD...

 

[PriNcE oF SpAcE]

as I said with acceleration off the colours are crap and I can't play it fullscreen so it kind of defeats the purpose.

 

[[Matt]]

NVDVD?