Taking screencaps of .rm/.avi/.mpg files...

[Rebel]

I have a dbz site I want to start. I have about 50 music videos I want to take screenshots from so people know what they're downloading. Any ideas?

-Reb

[Nick]

God, like we need another damn DBZ site on the internet :rolleyes:. Anyway, if you want to take a screenshot of a window, just make sure it's selected and then press Alt+PrintScrn. Then that puts the creenshot in your clipboard and just paste it into your paint program.

[Rebel]

Realplayer is there, just the image is still locked on my desktop. Any other ideas?

[Nick]

Originally posted by Rebel
Realplayer is there, just the image is still locked on my desktop.

What :confused:

[chicos]

http://www.hyperionics.com

hypercam
does that sort of stuff
good for capturing rm videos too

[jason]

i used paint shop pro to capture shots of avis and mpgs, i would image it would work on anything but unless you have that what i just said is useless.

[niv]

Nick, it doesn't work like that

Rebel, try moving RealPlayer around very erratically and press PrntScrn a LOT. keep it up until you can get a double (when PrntScrn returns two RealPlayers that don't overlap each other. that'll get you the image). For Windows Media Player, try making an HTML file with <EMBED SRC="blahblahblah.wmv"> and move that window around erratically and press PrntScrn like for realplayer.

[Nick]

I'll just leave cause I havent got a clue as to what the fu¢k you guys are talking about :p:o.

[LastActionHero]

Originally posted by needcgispace
Nick, it doesn't work like that

Rebel, try moving RealPlayer around very erratically and press PrntScrn a LOT. keep it up until you can get a double (when PrntScrn returns two RealPlayers that don't overlap each other. that'll get you the image). For Windows Media Player, try making an HTML file with <EMBED SRC="blahblahblah.wmv"> and move that window around erratically and press PrntScrn like for realplayer.


Huh? :confused:

[niv]

printscreen freezes your screen for a fraction of a second and takes whatever's on there, right? if realplayer doesn't want to have its "picture" taken, make a double. just move the realplayer window around a LOT and REALLY fast, and just keep hitting printscreen. keep trying and you should get a double of the window. i don't know how easier i can explain this :p

[LastActionHero]

OK I get it. But why doesn't real player allow a screenshot of itself? That is ridiculous.

[niv]

beats me.

[LastActionHero]

Damn RealPlayer

[niv]

trying to get screenshots from windows media player is even harder.

[d99janh]

When I wanted to make a screenshot from Win. Med. Play. I just use the full screen option, and press the prntscrn button.
Then I would past it into paintshop, and change the size to whatever it was to start with.

Nowadays, however I prefer to use programs that takes an avi file and give you frame nr ##. (If it´s an rm, just use Tinra, to decode it into an avi first).

:)

[niv]

that never works for me. if i do that, i get a blank screen.

[syd]

I hope this isn't too late.

I had the same problem, here's how I got around it.

I used Paint Shop Pro and had it open. While playing the video, I paused it. Pressed Prt Scr then copied and pasted into Paint Shop Pro.

It went black. This is what's happening to you, right?

Now, MINIMIZE the Real Player/MPEG player, and MAXIMIZE paint Shop Pro.

Then MAXIMIZE Real player again. The frame SHOULD be slightly off (say you paused at 4.5 seconds, it will appear as 4.7 seconds frame)

Then copy and paste again.

It should work. If it doesn't, try again.

[niv]

it's probably because of the x-pn-realvideo plugin that's messing everything up