Screen Capture from MS Media Player

[John WILD]

Another frustration!! I recorded the Swans v Geelong prelim final to a DVD
using my recently installed LG DVD recorder. I then took the disc produced
and put it in my DVD reader/burner fitted to my PC ( Pentium 4). Using
MicroSoft Media Player I then "selected & played" the file VTS_01_1.VOB
which was on the DVD and got an excellent reproduction of the match on my
monitor. I was able to "pause" the match at any point by hitting Media
Players "pause" button. With the play paused I then tried to capture the
screen to the clipboard both by pressing "PrintScreen" and also by using the
capture screen function of ACDSee 7.0 . All seemed to go well up to this
point.

I then started up MS Word and pasted the content of the clipboard onto a new
page.

In both cases the "paused" scene captured from the monitor appeared on the
MS Word document. When I then saved the MS Word document and then reopened
the saved file only the borders of the "paused" scene appeared and the rest
was black!!!



I'm not worried about not being able to use MS Word to display screen
captures done in the manner described above. My desire is to be able to
capture screens from paused scenes on Media Player and end up with these
scenes being held in a JPEG or other similar file format. Can anyone make
any suggestions ?

Thanking you

John W.

 

[TaurArian [MS-MVP]]

Try:
http://www.techsmith.com/products/snagit/default.asp
You can download a trial.

 

[David Candy]

Why would you record something so pathetic. This is unaustralian behaviour. Just in case you also record Eastern Suburbs Rugby League matches I offer the following and the file it came from (attached).

Note to international readers. Sydney Swans and Geelong Cats are teams in a girly ball competition like soccer but you can use your hands. It's played by the minor states in the Australian federation.

Copying the Screen
Key Description
Prt Scn Copies the whole screen to the clipboard as a graphic. Use MS Paint to paste the image.
Depending on Prt Scn key settings on the Misc tab of a Dos program's properties, a Dos program can still print to printer with Prt Scn key.
Alt + Prt Scn Copies the active window to the clipboard as a graphic.

To capture a screen from a DVD or other hardware type playback, disable Overlays in Media Player's Tools menu - Options - Performance - Advanced. Media Player has its own similar feature for DVDs only (Ctrl + I) but is usually not available due to computer hardware issues and also content protection issues.

If sending the screenshot by email save it as a jpeg, gif, or png file before sending (in MS Paint, File - Save As then choose a format in Save As Type).

Run MS Paint

 

[GTS]

PrintScreen can't capture a video frame. You need a program like
Video2Photo from http://www.pixelchain.com/

 

[John WILD]

To David Candy

Hi Sweety
Your attachment caused rejection of my reply message directly from you. I
was also unable to download it because my OE rejected it as unsafe.
I tried disabling Overlays, Ctlr+I, Prt Scn with and without Alt and all
combinations of these. No success same old black screen !
So you can see I was as successful as Easts !!!
Thanks for your attempt anyway
JDW

 

[John WILD]

Hi
Thanks to all for your assistance. Problem solved !!
Although both Snagit & Vide2Photo dont seem to do it directly. In fact as
implied by GTS a Screen Capture from MS Media Player cannot be done by
either of these programs. Queries, to both manufacturers ( especially
Snagit ) led to the answer. In order to gain access to all the excellent
functions available in Snagit ( example screen capturing and placing graphic
and other files in various document types etc) they suggested that I use
WinDVD 7 to do the capturing in the first place. When I looked at WinDVD 7
I found it can play DVD's and also take a "snapshot" of the screen which
then can be downloaded to a JPEG, BMP or other file types. Thats all I
wanted anyway.
Thanks again
John W.

 

[John WILD]

Hi All
Thanks to all for your assistance. Problem solved !!
Both Snagit & Vide2Photo dont seem to do it directly. In fact as
implied by GTS a Screen Capture from MS Media Player cannot be done by
either of these programs or Prnt Scr. Queries, to both manufacturers (
especially
Snagit ) led to the answer. In order to gain access to all the excellent
functions available in Snagit ( example screen capturing and placing graphic
and other files in various document types etc) they suggested that I use
WinDVD 7 to do the capturing in the first place. When I looked at WinDVD 7
I found it can play DVD's and also take a "snapshot" of the screen which
then can be downloaded to a JPEG, BMP or other file types. Thats all I
wanted .
Thanks again
John W.