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Is it possible to take screencaptures with a Windows MediaPlayer?

If so, how?

Thank you very much!

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peacefully.livejournal.com

With windows media player you have to slow down the video acceleration. Otherwise you'll get a black screen when you paste the cap (ctrl + v) into an imaging program.

Open media player, go to options, and find some advanced thing. Just find where you slow down the acceleration and turned it way down. Then when you cap using printscreen, it should give you an actual cap.

Of course I haven't ever used WMP to cap things, this is just what I've heard from other people.

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peacefully.livejournal.com

I think I may have meant hardware acceleration.

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pinstripesuit.livejournal.com

That didn't work. The "printscreen" trick does not work.

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peacefully.livejournal.com

In order for printscreen to work, you must first turn down the hardware acceleration. Especially if you're using a DVD. The way it was explained to me is that DVDs and some videos play on a different layer of the screen because of the quality, so when you printscreen normally it just takes a cap of the base layer and so the cap you make winds up having a black box or a window where you can see the DVD window through it. It's weird, I know.

Turning down the hardware acceleration makes it so that the DVD plays on the base layer. It plays a little choppier, but it caps. To turn down the hardware acceleration, go to tools - options - performance - advanced, see that bar? Pull the thing all the way down on it. Now hit okay and press printscreen on the part you want to cap. Then ctrl + v it into windows paint or whatever you're using to look at your caps. It should work, if not, try looking around the memories of

icon_tutorial, they might explain it a little better.

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Sorry, that did not work. There is no "hardware acceleration" bar that I can see. There is a "video acceleration" bar, though. Is that the same thing? I tried that, but it did not work.

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I've been looking around those tutroials you suggested, and, apparently, the "capture" feature of the WMP is no longer available on the free version; one now has to purchase the nifty version for that. It used to be included in the free version, but, as usual when software is "improved", all the good features are rid of, and a bunch of crap you never use gets added.

Ah, technology!

I guess I'll just wait to take caps using my college's computers. They have precious, precious Macs.

Thanks for your help, though!

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peacefully.livejournal.com

I didn't know that, sorry.

If you want something short term for DVDs, you could always get the free trial of PowerDVD from download.com. It's only for 15 days but it doesn't seem like you'll need it very long anyway. Just make sure to get version 5 or higher, because the early ones don't cap.