I'm watching my DVD on MSPaint!

[TheChort]

in my attempt to participate in the name that movie thread, i hit "print screen" while playing a dvd on my computer. I then procede to paste it in MSPaint (also tried it with photoshop), but i dont pause the movie.
To my surprise the movie continues platying in Paint. When i pause in media player it pauses. If i try to save the file, it shows up black. If i eject the DVD, the screen goes black.

Can someone explain to me what is going on? 😕

 

[amol]

I think it's transparent. It shows through to the movie.

 

[Shawn]

overlay

 

[TheChort]

so how do i take a screencap of a movie?

 

[OREOSpeedwagon]

you can't take screenshots of movies with the print screen key. the only media player that lets you take screenshots in it that I know of is VLC.

 

[TheChort]

thanks, it worked
cheers :beer:

 

[So]

PowerDVD does too (at least the old ver I have)

 

[dighn]

Originally posted by: OREOSpeedwagon
you can't take screenshots of movies with the print screen key. the only media player that lets you take screenshots in it that I know of is VLC.

VLC's wallpaper mode is trippy

 

[chuckywang]

Originally posted by: OREOSpeedwagon
you can't take screenshots of movies with the print screen key. the only media player that lets you take screenshots in it that I know of is VLC.

Media Player Classic allows you to do it as well.

 

[fs5]

You guys are all wrong, Media Player does it just turn off Hardware Acceleration in options.

 

[rocadelpunk]

i've always been curious how to do this hah.

 

[Snapster]

Originally posted by: fs5
You guys are all wrong, Media Player does it just turn off Hardware Acceleration in options.

FTW.

 

[yukichigai]

Originally posted by: OREOSpeedwagon
you can't take screenshots of movies with the print screen key. the only media player that lets you take screenshots in it that I know of is VLC.

Media Player Classic will if you set the rendering device to something other than Overlay.

Anyway, what you just encountered was Video Overlay. It's a technique used since the olden days, wherein the screen area on which video is to show is indicated by a special color. (in this case a near-black gray) This means less computation (theoretically) for the OS; when the window is partially obscured by another window so is the near-black.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: dighn

Originally posted by: OREOSpeedwagon
you can't take screenshots of movies with the print screen key. the only media player that lets you take screenshots in it that I know of is VLC.

VLC's wallpaper mode is trippy

the intro to kill bill made a good wall paper. sin city is another good one

unfortunately i had that dvd controller stuck there