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Posted by Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media] on 09/06/05 22:37
On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 18:12:14 GMT, "Michael Wozniak"
<novamusic@access4less.net> wrote:
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>"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" <neil@nospam.com> wrote in message
>news:bgnlh1530fca5pdn7oshoo5hjej8m8n9cv@4ax.com...
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>> OK, easy : Open media player, go to menu Tools->Options->Performance.
>> Choose "Advanced" button, make sure "Use video mixing renderer" is
>> chosen, and "Use high quality mode" (*not* use overlays) is checked.
>>
>> Now you can screen-cap the player. Start your video, pause at the
>> point you want to capture. Press & hold the Shift button then while
>> held down, press the PrtScrn button (usually just above the insert and
>> home keys on your keyboard). Ever wondered what that did ?
>>
>> OK, open some image editor, such as Paint. Now you can press Ctrl+V
>> (or choose Paste from the menu). You have a screenshot of the player.
>>
>> Crop the image using the image editor tools - in Paint you'd have to
>> use the Select tool to outline the image area you want, copy + paste
>> that into a *new* paint document.
>>
>> Finally, Save-As JPEG and the job's done.
>>
>> HTH
>> Cheers - Neil
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>Thanks, but I can't get it to work yet. I can paste the screenshot in (why
>didn't I think of screenshot?) using paint or another lame photo program,
>but when I try to crop or move things in the receiveing program, all I get
>is black - as if the WMP screenshot is layered, and the receiving s/w only
>wants to work with the black background & not the video still itself. Maybe
>I don't have all the boxes checked right? I couldn't find the "high quality"
>box, and I unchecked the "overlays" box as suggested. I'll bet its a
>checkbox issue.
You're right, but the actual combination is fairly tricky and depends
actually on how the specific graphics card in the PC handles the
display. I gave it my best guess.
With the options above you have turned off some combinations of
"overlays", which you've seen as a separate "layer" of the screen.
Overlays are intended to be handled by the graphics card hardware, and
usually make displaying video less processor intensive. But this is a
side effect - the "overlay" isn't actually on the same plane of video
as the windows desktop ;-)
As graphics cards & drivers do vary, I'd suggest the other options -
write down your original settings first, then disable "use primary
surface" and "use overlays" and see if that helps, or reverse the
suggested options I first gave.
Your graphics card driver programs might also have settings to place
video overlays directly onto the windows "layer" of screen.
HTH
Cheers - Neil
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