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"Windows Media Player - Print Screens"

I'll make it simple.

I want to print screen a shot from windows media player, but when I paste it into paint there's just a black box. Any ideas how I can get round this?

SBB wrote:

> This is the best way of doing it, without an effect on performance.


Turing off video overly always effects performance, as it means the CPU has to decode the video, rather than the GFx card, which is designed to decode and display video and does a much better job thatn the CPU. But, turing video overly off in the required program has the lowest effect on performance.

Try using VideoLAN (http://www.videolan.org/)
It's a great open-source media player.
Once installed go to Settings > Preferences.
A window will pop up.
Press the + next to General Settings tab to bring down all the options.
Click on Video.
Once in there check the Advanced Preferences box in the bottom right, and more options will come up.

Find 'Overlay Video Output' in the Video settings window, and un-check the box.

This is the best way of doing it, without an effect on performance.
Remember to save your settings, then you will need to quit the program and start it again to apply them.

Hope this helps,

Ben

taka-Q wrote:
> I would do my method, as what you have said significantly reduces
> graphics quality and performance most of the time.

That's good to know, done it now. Thankyou :)

my media player prints screen fine.

can you print screen on everything else?

Aoe wrote:
> taka-Q wrote:
> Aoe wrote:
> I had the same problem when trying to print screen with quicktime.
> In
> the end i gave up.
>
> Same problem as below, although in quicktime you can just pause the
> video, click the edit menu, and click copy and it copies the currnet
> frame of video to the clipboard.
>
> But it was inside a webpage. No menus there.

Use the save as source button and then run the movie in a normal quicktime window (if you have pro). If you don't have pro copy the .mov file from the temp internet files folder (varies depending on your browser) to another loacation on your Hard Drive and view it as per normal with all the controls.

Ms NY wrote:
> I had that same problem too but changed some different settings which
> I have no idea if it was a good idea or not..
> This is what I did:
>
> Go to your Control Panel
> Double-click on Display.
> Click on the Settings tab.
> Then click on Advanced.
> Then click on the Troubleshoot tab.
> Where it says Hardware acceleration, change it from Full to None.
>
> No idea if that was a good thing to do, but it stopped that 'overlay'
> thing. :)

I would do my method, as what you have said significantly reduces graphics quality and performance most of the time.

taka-Q wrote:
> Aoe wrote:
> I had the same problem when trying to print screen with quicktime.
> In
> the end i gave up.
>
> Same problem as below, although in quicktime you can just pause the
> video, click the edit menu, and click copy and it copies the currnet
> frame of video to the clipboard.

But it was inside a webpage. No menus there.

I had that same problem too but changed some different settings which I have no idea if it was a good idea or not..
This is what I did:

Go to your Control Panel
Double-click on Display.
Click on the Settings tab.
Then click on Advanced.
Then click on the Troubleshoot tab.
Where it says Hardware acceleration, change it from Full to None.

No idea if that was a good thing to do, but it stopped that 'overlay' thing. :)

Or use something other than WMP as PowerDVD can take screen shots easily with its capture button.

Aoe wrote:
> I had the same problem when trying to print screen with quicktime. In
> the end i gave up.

Same problem as below, although in quicktime you can just pause the video, click the edit menu, and click copy and it copies the currnet frame of video to the clipboard.