Saltah'na
Chinese Canadian, or 75% Commie Bastard.
Member # 33
posted
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.
-------------------- "And slowly, you come to realize, it's all as it should be, you can only do so much. If you're game enough, you could place your trust in me. For the love of life, there's a tradeoff, we could lose it all but we'll go down fighting...." - David Sylvian FreeSpace 2, the greatest space sim of all time, now remastered!
Registered: Mar 1999
| IP: Logged
Daniel Butler
I'm a Singapore where is my boat
Member # 1689
posted
VLC. www.videolan.org Video -> Snapshot. Saves in your home directory on Linux, so on Windows I'm guessing somewhere in My Documents.
Registered: Jul 2005
| IP: Logged
posted
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.
-------------------- "You are a terrible human, Ritten." Magnus "Urgh, you are a sick sick person..." Austin Powers A leek too, pretty much a negi.....
Registered: Sep 2000
| IP: Logged
Daniel Butler
I'm a Singapore where is my boat
Member # 1689
posted
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....)
Registered: Jul 2005
| IP: Logged
Saltah'na
Chinese Canadian, or 75% Commie Bastard.
Member # 33
posted
Dan: Tried that. Dunno why, but it won't keep the screen.
-------------------- "And slowly, you come to realize, it's all as it should be, you can only do so much. If you're game enough, you could place your trust in me. For the love of life, there's a tradeoff, we could lose it all but we'll go down fighting...." - David Sylvian FreeSpace 2, the greatest space sim of all time, now remastered!
Registered: Mar 1999
| IP: Logged
posted
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.
Cartman
just made by the Presbyterian Church
Member # 256
posted
"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.
Daniel Butler
I'm a Singapore where is my boat
Member # 1689
posted
Which explains why it works for me - I use Compiz and have the 'unredirect video' option checked. Unless I'm wrong.
Registered: Jul 2005
| IP: Logged
posted
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?
![[Wink]](wink.gif)
Printer-friendly view of this topic
