Screen capture of WMP

[KiZ]

I have a film that i want to take a screenie from. But taking a screenshot of Windows media player results in some very strange things. It appears that instead of copying the pixel data, it copys the data of another video layer. Meaning, if i change the size or part of the movie, the image in the editor also changes. Essentially, i can watch the movie by doing "Print Scrn" or WMP, copying it into a gfx editor and playing the movie in WMP. Then switch back to the gfx editor, and the movie is rolling.... inside the image.

Very strange. But i can kind of understand why.

My main reason for posting is AHHH!! I really want to take a screenshot of a particular place in the movie, but i cant! Saving the image just results in a blank layer where the movie should be. Other screen capture methds such as screen capture programs just yield the same result.

Anyone know how I can take a screenie of the film?

EDIT: Oh, and taking a screenshot of the screenshot doesnt work either. ;P

[Jofers]

That's because video is now hardware accelerated. Try going into your video card settings and disabling hardware acceleration. I'm not sure if that'll work, but I'm on a crippled library computer.

[KiZ]

THAAAAAAAANK you Jofers! It worked.


Man i was dying to get that done.

EDIT: yay thats the result! \/ \/ (kudos to anyone who recognises what film the background is from)