Topic: Video Screen Capture?
started by: Rshias
Posted by Rshias on Feb. 13 2002,15:34
Is there a simple way to do a screen capture out of a video? If so, how can this be accomplished?
Posted by ic0n0 on Feb. 13 2002,17:04
Three ways this can be done. One if you have a TV card it should be right in the program. Two if your video card has a video in (yellow cord) put the cord in from a TV or VCR (might be s-vid) and load up the program that uses that. Three you can buy a video composite to usb converter that comes with software x10 sells them, and so the same thing. Best ideas i can think of. If your talking about capturing vedio from a dvd player on the your comp it can be done if it software, but if you have an overlay/hardware decoder it will be harder to capture.
Posted by Rshias on Feb. 13 2002,18:07
I'm actually just looking for a way to capure a single frame from a movie. Not the video itself.
Posted by RadioActive on Feb. 13 2002,21:19
most video editing software will let you do thati never tried it in VirtualDub, but there probably is a way
try
Posted by liquid metal on Feb. 13 2002,21:58
Alt+Print Screen doesn't work for you?! It works for me 
Posted by Rshias on Feb. 13 2002,22:21
| Quote (liquid metal @ 13 Feb. 2002,16:58) |
| Alt+Print Screen doesn't work for you?! It works for me |
Nope. Try it while playing a video on your computer. It'll capture the media player you're using, but not the actual movie. It places a black box where the video should be.
If it does work, then I'd sure like to know what sort of screencapture program you have installed on your system.
Posted by Hellraiser on Feb. 13 2002,23:00
Problem is that print screen captures the 2-d desktop, not overlays. In order to do a capture, you'll either need a utility that is designed to capture overlay, or you can do this with media player: Pause playback, minimize then maximize the media player. It should show the frame paused, but not use the overlay to do so until you hit play again, so you should be able to capture it. This works well for me. Of course for DVD's and other captures, I usually use PowerDVD to capture the frame, as there is a convenient button to allow me to do so. You can play any common type of video clip except quicktime or realplayer in Power DVD when you have it set to file mode.
Posted by Rshias on Feb. 14 2002,04:01
Interesting idea, but for whatever reason, it refuses to work for me. I'm using a MPEG compressed music video as a testing platform for the method you described above. This is on a WinXP system, using Media Player to run through the video.Still no frame copy.
Posted by Dark Knight Bob on Feb. 14 2002,15:04
i'm sure you can capture using print scrn on WMP i had the same problem ages ago i solved it by fiddling about with the contorls. it was either move the slider bar to the point you wanted pause it or something.EDIT: DKB actually bothers readin posts properly. hmm yeah looks like you're screwed
Posted by Hellraiser on Feb. 14 2002,17:32
Ah yes, I'm thinking Win95/98/2000/NT, MS must have changed shit around again since then. Two ideas, both of which might be hard for you to do: try PowerDVD on your system if you can get a copy. Its much better than WMP anyways, IMHO. The other is, burn it on CD and take it to a friend's house, play it on their Windows 98 outdated peice of shit machine, and get your captures there, email yourself them, or put them on a disk.
A third idea is browse a bit through Google or the like, see if anyone else who's had this problem knows of a solution or workaround, but I'm sure you've done that already.
Two particular things to look for: the Manufacturer of your graphics card, and the specific model/name of the graphics card. A lot of issues with video capture can be worked around in different ways for different video cards, because each one handles overlay and hardware accelerated imagery differently.
Posted by Rshias on Feb. 14 2002,21:51
Thanks for all the info. I tracked down a full version of PowerDVD and am using that for now. It works just fine. It looks like XP screwed over the WMP method. I threw a copy of W2k on a second machine, and then it worked fine. Just one more thing to be aware of.