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Rshias 
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Posted on: Feb. 13 2002,15:34 |
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Is there a simple way to do a screen capture out of a video? If so, how can this be accomplished?
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Posted on: Feb. 13 2002,17:04 |
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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.
Edited by ic0n0 on Jan. 01 1970,01:00
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Rshias
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Posted on: Feb. 13 2002,18:07 |
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I'm actually just looking for a way to capure a single frame from a movie. Not the video itself.
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Posted on: Feb. 13 2002,21:19 |
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most video editing software will let you do that
i never tried it in VirtualDub, but there probably is a way
try
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Posted on: Feb. 13 2002,21:58 |
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Alt+Print Screen doesn't work for you?! It works for me 
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Rshias
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Posted on: Feb. 13 2002,22:21 |
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| 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. 
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Posted on: Feb. 13 2002,23:00 |
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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.
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Rshias
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Posted on: Feb. 14 2002,04:01 |
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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. 
Edited by Rshias on Jan. 01 1970,01:00
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Dark Knight Bob
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Posted on: Feb. 14 2002,15:04 |
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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
Edited by Dark Knight Bob on Jan. 01 1970,01:00
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Posted on: Feb. 14 2002,17:32 |
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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.
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