Screen capturing

[Chosen_one offline]

Um... how do you screen capture a video file? The [Print Screen/SysRq] button never seems to work for it.

[Overcaffeinated Sloth offline]

Ehh... I don't know what you're talking about, printscreen only works for whole snapshots... of the entire monitor...

[knifey offline]

He's saying that if you try to take a screenshot of the entire screen with a video program running it won't work, it just shows a blank area instead.

Here: This is a screenshot I took of the entire screen while I was watching a small clip of "The Andy Milonakis show" I downloaded from the "I found a ton of hilarious stuff" thread. http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/9523 ... ple4jk.jpg
As you can see the time bar is in the middle of the timeline but the screen is blank.

As for trying to take a screenshot, I have a different video program that can take screenshots from the controls of the program. You can also do it with Windows Media Player but it must be on a DVD. I'm not sure why the blank screen thing happens though.

[Chosen_one offline]

I think the blank screen occurs because when you take the screenshot, the actual movie is copied rather than the frame that it's on. If you look at the picture while the movie's open, you can see that it's perfectly fine. But if you play the movie, the screenshot also plays.

[Kharaa offline]

Actually, what's happening is that you're not capturing what's on the screen because your video player is using something called 'video overlay'. Basically, everything of a certain color on your screen is replaced with the video image. If you take a screenshot, you get the video overlay color rather than the video itself.

If you turn off the video overlay feature in your settings, screenshots should work correctly.

[Chupathingy 42 offline]

What Kharaa is saying is it... I've ran in to the same problem

BTW, little tip for others though. Hitting Print screen captures the whole screen... hitting ALT+Print Screen captures only the "top" program... the program that you currently have selected

[Ghost Guest offline]

I've also had the same problem with the screenshots. Thanks for your help, Kharaa. BTW, instructions on how to turn off the overlay can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screenshot ... e_overlays it worked for me

[Dairall offline]

That works a little. But I got Media Player 11. Where do I get that menu.