Screenshots of AVIs?

[Sixchan]

GAH!!!!!

I am at the end of my tether with this, and I might have to introduce my computer to a hammer very soon.

Anyway, the problem is this: I have an avi file, and I want to take a screenshot of a particular part of it. However, whenever I do, I paste it into an image program, I get a black screen where the avi should be.

It's really ****ing annoying me. Seriously. GAH.

Can anyone help?

 

[Drawmack]

are you using thrid party software to take the screen shot?

If you're on a windows system try just hitting print screen and taking a screen shot of the whole screen then using the graphics program to trim it.

 

[Sixchan]

I tried it using both 3rd party software and the simple printscreen-paste method. Same result both ways.

 

[Uruk]

Yeah, that's because AVIs usually use your video card's "video overlay" and is being displayed differently. I know of at least one program Hypersnap DX that will let you take a screenshot of AVIs, DVDs, etc...

 

[Drawmack]

I use power dvd for playing all my movies. It has it's own frame capture built in, but it is a pay product.

 

[orbitalfreak]

You can try setting your video hardware acceleration to "none" in whatever player you're using. This worked for me (using Windows Media Player) in an experiment a few minutes ago. Quality may suffer, though.

 

[Sixchan]

You can try setting your video hardware acceleration to "none" in whatever player you're using. This worked for me (using Windows Media Player) in an experiment a few minutes ago. Quality may suffer, though.

Can I have your Manbabies?

/me hugs orbitalfreak

 

[Psionicist]

Remember to switch back to hardware acceleration when you are done, otherwise some annoying side effects and behaviors (such as slowness, poor quality movies and such) may occur.

 

[Sixchan]

Remember to switch back to hardware acceleration when you are done, otherwise some annoying side effects and behaviors (such as slowness, poor quality movies and such) may occur.

's okay, I used Media Player since Orbitalfreak advised that, but I use DivX for .avis and Quicktime for everything else.

And from it, I got...a new avatar! w00t!