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Saltah'na
Member # 33
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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.
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Daniel Butler
Member # 1689
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VLC. www.videolan.org Video -> Snapshot. Saves in your home directory on Linux, so on Windows I'm guessing somewhere in My Documents.
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Ritten
Member # 417
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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.
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Daniel Butler
Member # 1689
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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....)
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Saltah'na
Member # 33
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Dan: Tried that. Dunno why, but it won't keep the screen.
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Fabrux
Member # 71
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In my experience with videos and print screen, it doesn't save the video. For whatever reason.
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Daniel Butler
Member # 1689
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*shrug* Well, VLC then
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Lee
Member # 393
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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.
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Cartman
Member # 256
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"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.
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Daniel Butler
Member # 1689
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Which explains why it works for me - I use Compiz and have the 'unredirect video' option checked. Unless I'm wrong.
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Lee
Member # 393
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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?
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Daniel Butler
Member # 1689
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That's not ironic, that's just coincidental!
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