Windows Media Player Screen Shots?

[geek_gal]

Ok this has being anoying the heck outta me,
I know you can take screenshots from videos playing in WMP and it works but not for me, ive tryed and tryed, i even tryed minimize'n the WMP video to see if it makes a diffrence but it doesnt.(lol duh)

Well anyways, this is what it looks like when i take the image to paint,

(spose to be a pic here from the video(s) but none appear(sp) )

Ive looked through the options aswell and i cant see any that really rings a bell but this one ~

But still not sure if it means something else, or what

Please help guys!

Thanks..
~G.G

(sorry if the screenshots are too big)

 

[joe pic]

yeah, this happens to me as well. other times the picture will just stop about half into the video.

 

[lhuser]

avi's do that.

 

[geek_gal]

Lovely suggestions and all but really its not any help :\ you no......

???

my patientience is growing thin with some CF members..................

 

[wozelbeak]

i have done some investigation my dear, and have come up with this:

all you have to do is to disable hardware acceleration in WMP's options, and then you can make snapshots using the print button or corel capture or whatever else. you can't make snapshots of hardware accelerated video.

woz

 

[MarxSoccer]

I always thought it had to do with being copyrighted, I'll have to try that out woz

 

[geek_gal]

i have done some investigation my dear, and have come up with this:

all you have to do is to disable hardware acceleration in WMP's options, and then you can make snapshots using the print button or corel capture or whatever else. you can't make snapshots of hardware accelerated video.

woz

I knew it was something like that,
Thanks heaps

disable hardware acceleration in WMP's options

Do you mean this?

^ see that, mines on full..does it need to be low, like yeah none/small..?

you can't make snapshots of hardware accelerated video.

*is more confused*


My dumbness is sad'n lol

 

[tian516]

i am not quite sure but i think some professinal screen capture program such as ACA capture PRo or super capture......i prefer aca capture , it is pretty good....aca capture can capture any images shown in your screen...

 

[prosser13]

I wish I could answer your question, but I think I know the cause.

I've read in some places that to speed up the video, one of the major components is bypassed - not sure if its the CPU or the graphics card, think its the latter.

Therefore, when you go to take a screenshot Windows doesn't 'see' the video, so it doesnt' appear in the screenshot.

Theres some setting you can change, but I don't know which :s

 

[LambOfGod]

listening to In Flames i see