Screenshot of Media Player

[smartcap]

How does one go about taking a screenshot when Media Player is in FULL SCREEN mode....?

 

[Codewiz]

press the print screen button on your keyboard. Then go into paint and hit paste??????

 

[teknodude]

Originally posted by: Codewiz
press the print screen button on your keyboard. Then go into paint and hit paste??????

Nope, from my experience that will just give you a blank screen to paste. WM obviously has built in protection against screen captures.

teknodude

 

[Haden]

Start first WMP with movie, pause, minimize. Start second one, no try to print screen.
It's not protection, it's because WMP (most programs actually) tries to use overlay whenever possible (and your system won't support 2 or > ).

Mind this really works in window mode and it works fullscreen on my Debian (same overlay stuff) but I can't try it fullscreen on windows...

 

[Auric]

It depends on the decoder/filter. For DivX the option Overlay Extended Mode can be disabled (default) to allow full screen caps.

 

[Antisocial Virge]

Turn off video acceleration and then print screen
EDIT: hmm..that don't seem to work.

 

[Adrian Tung]

I haven't been up to date with the current trends, but last time I've heard the best app to make screen captures in such situations would be Hypersnap DX.


atwl

 

[TerryP]

Use MWSnap
(free)


MWSnap

 

[hfhf6]

It happens with dvd movies too. The media is streamed straight though to your screen bypassing you gpu which processes the screenshots. this is why you can see full color dvd video and other video even with the colors set to 256 or even 16. Maybe a third party util could do it. I don't know though.