Evil Genius

I'm having the strangest problem.
I used to take screencaps all the time, no problem. I would play the .avi video in media player classic, pause it where I want it, hit the "print screen" button, and paste the image in a new document in photoshop.
But now, no matter what program I play the same videos in, it won't work, ever since I upgraded my video card (from 64 to 128MB.) When I paste the image and close the video program the area of the screencap where the picture should be turns black (when the video is playing it appears.)
I've never seen that before. Some sort of screencap protection?
One reason I even got this new video card was so my screencaps would be better. Help!
As soon as I get this working, I can finnally decide on a good avatar and sig.

Most likely, it's some sort of overlay messing with you. Try playing the files in WMP (not classic) and disabling the video overlay-
it should be under Performance -> Advanced or something.


EDIT: typo

I use Virtual Dub to catch screenshots of my avi files. I actually prefer it there.

Eldo wrote:I use Virtual Dub to catch screenshots of my avi files. I actually prefer it there.

Yea you can use:

VirtualDub
VLC
Media Player Classic

Either one of those should get the job done without having to muck around with the graphic card's settings. For VLC and Media Player Classic you just have to hit one button to save a frame as an image. VirtualDub is a little more complex since it has a wider range of functionality, which makes it better in the end.

Yhea I found the "save image" function in media player classic, but it saves them as small crappy bitmap images. I used to take full-screen screencaps.
I also tried VLC.
But I'll try the rest of your suggestions too.

Download the latest video card drivers.... eventhough I don't see how that could be a trouble but you never know.

SarahofBorg wrote:Yhea I found the "save image" function in media player classic, but it saves them as small crappy bitmap images. I used to take full-screen screencaps.
I also tried VLC.
But I'll try the rest of your suggestions too.

They aren't small crappy bitmaps. They're the resolution of whatever video you're screencapping, not what you resize MPC to. Hitting Print Screen with the video window maximized or whatever is the same thing as taking the bitmap MPC makes and enlarging it.

Devil_Dante wrote:Download the latest video card drivers.... eventhough I don't see how that could be a trouble but you never know.

Also, you might want to check the price of tea in China. It could have this latent long-term effect... (hint: video drivers have nothing to do with this)

Daedelus wrote:

Devil_Dante wrote:Download the latest video card drivers.... eventhough I don't see how that could be a trouble but you never know.

Also, you might want to check the price of tea in China. It could have this latent long-term effect... (hint: video drivers have nothing to do with this)

Absolutely. Video drivers has absolutely nothing to do with it. It's like wearing a horse suit to avoid taking a physical (thank god for Family Guy).

If you want to resize it, there's a thousand programs that does it. Photoshop is one, gimp is another. You can convert the file format to jpeg or whatever via the program. It's not hard at all. As Daedelus mentioned, the image of the video that was screencapped is the original resolution of the actual video.

Eldo wrote:If you want to resize it, there's a thousand programs that does it. Photoshop is one, gimp is another. You can convert the file format to jpeg or whatever via the program. It's not hard at all. As Daedelus mentioned, the image of the video that was screencapped is the original resolution of the actual video.

The simplest way to resize would be to use Paint. So I'd just use paint, especially if you don't have photoshop or anything else.

Daedelus wrote:

SarahofBorg wrote:Yhea I found the "save image" function in media player classic, but it saves them as small crappy bitmap images. I used to take full-screen screencaps.
I also tried VLC.
But I'll try the rest of your suggestions too.

They aren't small crappy bitmaps. They're the resolution of whatever video you're screencapping, not what you resize MPC to. Hitting Print Screen with the video window maximized or whatever is the same thing as taking the bitmap MPC makes and enlarging it.

Ah, good to know, so I guess that solves my problem. Thanks!

I had a similar problem, I fixed it by installing better drivers.

EvaXephon wrote:I had a similar problem, I fixed it by installing better drivers.

Did you even read the above posts? Drivers have nothing to do with this!

RE: Eldo... oh what the hell, I'll just ask. Why the horse costume?