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Posted by Saltah'na (Member # 33) on :

A friend sent me a nice video clip with a particular shot that I want to use for my background. Any idea how I can obtain such a screenshot? Winamp and Media Player don't provide any ideas as to how to accomplish this.

Thanks.

Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :

VLC. www.videolan.org Video -> Snapshot. Saves in your home directory on Linux, so on Windows I'm guessing somewhere in My Documents.

Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :

Pause it and use GIMP/Photoshop/PSP to capture it.

Open it in a video editor and pull out the selected seen.

I just started playing around with VLC, a quick test saved in home/.vlc as a png, pretty cool. Thanks Dan.

Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :

btw, in Windows and Linux the "Print Screen" key will take capture a screenshot of whatever you can currently see, and many video players will do a fullscreen mode. In Windows, after you push the key, you'll have to open a new document in Paint or whatever you like and paste it. (I just love that Paint can save to JPEG...I remember my first computer, with 256 colors and 8mb RAM....)

Posted by Saltah'na (Member # 33) on :

Dan: Tried that. Dunno why, but it won't keep the screen.

Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :

In my experience with videos and print screen, it doesn't save the video. For whatever reason.

Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :

*shrug* Well, VLC then [Wink]

Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :

I remain faithful to POwerDVD and its screen-grab button (a handy little camera icon). And you can specify location and filename parameters. The only drawback is it will only save as .BMPs, but a quick Batch Conversion in PSP sorts that.

Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :

"For whatever reason."

That would be because media players typically render video directly to a non-shared hardware overlay memory buffer that the Windows printscreen routine doesn't read.

Now you know.

Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :

Which explains why it works for me - I use Compiz and have the 'unredirect video' option checked. Unless I'm wrong.

Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :

Oh, irony. My work laptop died on Friday, and it was either PowerDVD or Nero that did it, both pirated. And me the IT manager. Incidentally. anyone got a Looney Tunes DVD which could furnish a picture of Sylvester and Sylvester Junior, the latter with that paper bag on his head?

Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :

That's not ironic, that's just coincidental! [Wink]