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I don't have the answer to your quesiton but I just had to say that I absolutely love your icon.

Thanks!

I would imagine you could, just pause whatever you want to cap and push print screen. Then paste it into your photo editor. Lemme know if this works! I've only done so with Real Audio.

Nope, didn't work. Thanks anyway. I even went to "Help" section of the MediaPlayer, but that did not help.

I just tryed it. Hit the PrintScreen cap. Pasted it into Adobe and got a blank screen. So, I would think no.

Where's the "printscreen" cap?

Top line of the keyboard.

Tried that. All that happens is a window appears for the "mini-player".

Sorry, I'm quite computer illiterate.

Ya, a black screen. It doesn't work.

I hate having Windows sometimes.

actually. if you hit the printscreen button and you get that black screen do it again and it like overrides it somehow.. make sure you paused the movie file first though. OR you should invest in powerdvd

I don't get a black screen when I hit "printscreen". Just nothing happens.

are you using photoshop? it works with paint to..

hit printscreen open up a art program and hit ctrl v

youll get a black screen bring up the movie hit printscreen again and go back to the art program and hit ctrl v.

i merely figure it out after being fustrated with it months ago.

I don't have Photoshop. I'm guessing that's the main reason of this problem.

nope, use microsoft paint that will work also.

Hey, it kinda worked! Thanks!

no problem

My bad. MS Paint fucked it up.

how so?

The entire image of the MediaPlayer with the cap appears, but when I try to crop only the movie out and copy and paste it into a new document, the black area "behind" the Media Player gets selected, too, and there is no way I can get rid of it.

Also, when I save the image as a JPEG, a grid of black dots appears on the image.

thats weird it works for me

Yay!! Thank you for that. I can cap now!!

ha no problem.

I use Fraps (http://www.fraps.com/download.htm), and that works pretty well for me.

Alex

With windows media player you have to slow down the video acceleration. Otherwise you'll get a black screen when you paste the cap (ctrl + v) into an imaging program.

Open media player, go to options, and find some advanced thing. Just find where you slow down the acceleration and turned it way down. Then when you cap using printscreen, it should give you an actual cap.

Of course I haven't ever used WMP to cap things, this is just what I've heard from other people.

I think I may have meant hardware acceleration.

That didn't work. The "printscreen" trick does not work.

In order for printscreen to work, you must first turn down the hardware acceleration. Especially if you're using a DVD. The way it was explained to me is that DVDs and some videos play on a different layer of the screen because of the quality, so when you printscreen normally it just takes a cap of the base layer and so the cap you make winds up having a black box or a window where you can see the DVD window through it. It's weird, I know.

Turning down the hardware acceleration makes it so that the DVD plays on the base layer. It plays a little choppier, but it caps. To turn down the hardware acceleration, go to tools - options - performance - advanced, see that bar? Pull the thing all the way down on it. Now hit okay and press printscreen on the part you want to cap. Then ctrl + v it into windows paint or whatever you're using to look at your caps. It should work, if not, try looking around the memories of

icon_tutorial, they might explain it a little better.

Sorry, that did not work. There is no "hardware acceleration" bar that I can see. There is a "video acceleration" bar, though. Is that the same thing? I tried that, but it did not work.

I've been looking around those tutroials you suggested, and, apparently, the "capture" feature of the WMP is no longer available on the free version; one now has to purchase the nifty version for that. It used to be included in the free version, but, as usual when software is "improved", all the good features are rid of, and a bunch of crap you never use gets added.

Ah, technology!

I guess I'll just wait to take caps using my college's computers. They have precious, precious Macs.

Thanks for your help, though!

I didn't know that, sorry.

If you want something short term for DVDs, you could always get the free trial of PowerDVD from download.com. It's only for 15 days but it doesn't seem like you'll need it very long anyway. Just make sure to get version 5 or higher, because the early ones don't cap.

I'll remember that.

Thanks!

If you want to do bulk capping, I'd go with Windows Media Player Classic, available at oldversion.com (http://www.oldversion.com). What you do is go to File --> Save Image, and save the cap to your directory/folder of choice. Sounds inconvenient, but since you don't have to paste each time, it makes it easy to do lots of caps at once.

I GOT IT!! I'd been having problems, and I tried most everything recommended in here (I have the free version that came with my dell) and just go to

Tools > Options > Performance and then take Acceleration down to "none"

:)